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1981

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2019

1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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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 Montsdoca v. State · 198 So. 2d 313 - Flagler v. State · Thomas v. State · Solloa v. State · Dupree 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he question is not whether the victim here actually feared appellant, but whether a jury could conclude that a reasonable person under like circumstances would be sufficiently threatened to accede to the robber's demands.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The expression `holdup,' in its ordinary significance, means a forcible detention of the person held with the intent to commit robbery, and implies the necessary force to carry out that purpose.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “approach to determining whether a victim was put in fear. Brown, supra. Brown involved a defendant who had approached a bank teller and handed her a note on which was written,”
    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.