State v. Heisterman’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2009
8 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 313 So. 2d 692 - Estevez v. State · 324 So. 2d 630 - State v. White · Heisterman v. State · 84 So. 2d 50 - Caraker 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and then fired at the windows of the house with a pistol. This Court held, at 1273: The acts constituting assault under the statute were completed when respondent verbally threatened the Simmons, pointed a pistol in their direction, and put them in fear. This crime was proved without evidence that any shots were fired... . Respondent's other conviction was based on adequate evidence that several shots were in fact fired into the house around the window area. (citations omitted.) The state points out that petitioners'”
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.