State v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Thornton v. United States (2004), State v. Sturdivant (1981)
79 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 Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Watson · Harris v. United States
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Kidnapping. —(a) Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without the consent of such person, or any other person under the age of 16 years without the consent of a parent or legal custodian of such person, shall be guilty of kidnapping if such confinement, restraint or removal is for the purpose of: (2) Facilitating the commission of any felony. . ..”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the victim is shown to be under sixteen, the state has the burden of showing that [the victim] was unlawfully confined, restrained, or removed from one place to another without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another . . . any other person under the age of 16 years without the consent of a parent or legal custodian of such person, shall be guilty of: kidnapping if such confinement, restraint or removal is for the purpose of: (2) Facilitating the commission of any felony or facilitating flight of any person following the commission of a felony; (b) ... If the person kidnapped was released in a safe place by the defendant . . . the offense is kidnapping in the second degree[.]”
2 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.