405 So. 2d 71 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 20 Conn. App. 643 - State v. Aleksiewicz (1990), 419 So. 2d 610 - Lidge v. State (1982)
27 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 392 So. 2d 1274 - Watson v. State · 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State · 371 So. 2d 932 - Wilson v. State · 140 N.J. Super. 28 - State v. Cooper · 371 So. 2d 943 - Wilson 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) A person commits the crime of robbery in the third degree if in the course of committing a theft he: "(1) Uses force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to overcome his physical resistance or physical power of resistance; or "(2) Threatens the imminent use of force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to compel acquiescence to the taking of or escaping with the property. "(b) Robbery in the third degree is a Class C felony."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“authorize the infliction of a more severe penalty on one who is a persistent offender regardless of when the prior convictions occurred and even if they occurred before the enactment of the act.”
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.