State v. Peacock’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Gibbs (1993), State v. Cummings (1997)
130 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 State v. Rowland · Grigsby v. Mabry · State v. Joyner · State v. Tippett · State v. Redfern
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the State's evidence is clear and positive with respect to each element of the offense charged and there is no evidence showing the commission of a lesser included offense, it is not error for the trial judge to refuse to instruct on the lesser offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[W]here the uncontroverted evidence is positive and unequivocal as to each and every element of [common law] robbery, and there is no evidence supporting defendant's guilt of a lesser offense, the trial court does not err by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of common law robbery."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hether an instrument can be considered a dangerous weapon depends upon the nature of the instrument, the manner in which defendant used it or threatened to use it, and in some cases the victim's perception of the instrument and its use.”
4 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.