State v. Beatty’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Prevatte (2002), State v. Ripley (2006)
54 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. Fulcher · State v. Irwin · State v. Pigott · Gupton v. Builders Transport
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The key question . . . is whether the kidnapping charge is supported by evidence from which a jury could reasonably find that the necessary restraint for kidnapping”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the purpose of . . . [f]acilitating the commission of any felony.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Smith“[A] person cannot be convicted of kidnapping when the only evidence of restraint [or confinement] is that 'which is an inherent, inevitable feature' of another felony such as [rape].”
3 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.