Bangs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Ferguson v. State (2000), Barnes v. State (2001)
92 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 Davis v. United States · Ross v. Oklahoma · Jones v. ABC-TV · Nooner v. State · Bowen v. State
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Serious physical injury” means physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health, or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“(a) A person commits murder in the second degree if: (1) he knowingly causes the death of another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. State“With the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing the death of another person, he or she causes the death of any person;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'NEAL v. State
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.