State v. Garcias’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2023
2 district · 11 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the crime of menacing if by word or conduct he intentionally attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“appears to center on preventing harm to the victim in the form of tension, alarm and whatever injury may result from the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm.”
1 later decision 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.