State v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Williams (2008), State v. Sturdivant (1981)
193 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · State v. Gray · State v. Whittemore · State v. Gray · State v. Blackmon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An instrument which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm under the circumstances of its use is properly denominated a deadly weapon.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the unlawful attempted taking of personal property from another; (2) the possession, use or threatened use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, implement or means; and (3) danger or threat to the life of the victim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person or persons who, having in possession or with the use or threatened use of any firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or means, whereby the life of a person is endangered or threatened, unlawfully takes or attempts to take personal property from another . . . shall be guilty of a Class D felony. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.