State v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2012
17 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 Balistrieri v. United States · Robinson v. State · State v. Ritchison · State v. Sangster · State v. Lawr
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person, having the intent to commit a felony, assault or theft therein, who, having no right, license or privilege to do so, enters an occupied structure or area enclosed in such a manner as to provide a place for the keeping of valuable property secure from theft or criminal mischief, such occupied structure or place not being open to the public, or who remains therein after it is closed to the public or after the person’s right, license or privilege to be there has expired, or any person having such intent who breaks an occupied structure or other place where anything of value is kept, commits burglary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buss · State v. Dean“[These alternative means] have two elements in common. The common elements are the requisite intent and the absence of authority. The requisite intent is “the intent to commit a felony, assault or theft [in the place involved].” Id. The requisite absence of authority is “no right, license, or privilege” to do the act involved. Id. When those elements exist, a person is guilty of burglary who (1) “enters an occupied structure or area enclosed in such a manner as to provide a place for the keeping of valuable property secure from theft or criminal mischief, such occupied structure or place not being open to the public,” or (2) “who remains therein after it is closed to the public or after the person’s right, license or privilege to be there has expired,” or (3) “who breaks an occupied structure or other place where anything of value is kept_” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wales · State v. Dean“any building, structure, land, water or air vehicle, or similar place adapted for overnight accommodation of persons, or occupied by persons for the purpose of carrying on business or other activity therein, or for the storage or safekeeping of anything of value. Such a structure is an “occupied structure” whether or not a person is actually present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buss
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.