State v. Phams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2011
4 federal appellate · 16 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. Cullison · State v. Conner · State v. Aldape · State v. Beeman · State v. Jones
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[SJerious injury means something more than the “pain or injury” element in the assault statute, section 708.1(1). [Authority] ... [A] substantial risk of death means more than just any risk of death but does not mean that death was likely. If there is a “real hazard or danger of death,” serious injury is established. [Authority]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hilpipre“if it results as an incident to the felony and is associated with the felony as one of its hazards. It is not necessary for application of the doctrine that the murder be contemporaneous with the felony.... A lapse of time and distance are factors to be considered but are not determinative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is only required that the state prove [that] defendant was participating in the underlying felony.”
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.