State v. Bunker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2020
19 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 People v. Daniels · Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · Monks v. New Jersey · People v. Levy · People v. Miles
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1256. Multiple sentences of imprisonment 2. ... The sentences shall be concurrent unless, in considering the following factors, the court decides to impose sentences consecutively: D. That the seriousness of the criminal conduct involved in either a single criminal episode or in multiple criminal episodes or the seriousness of the criminal record of the convicted person, or both, require a sentence of imprisonment in excess of the maximum available for the most serious offense. 3. A defendant may not be sentenced to consecutive terms for crimes arising out of the same criminal episode when: B. One crime consists only of a conspiracy, attempt, solicitation or other form of preparation to commit, or facilitation of, the other....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. He knowingly restrains another person with the intent to (1) hold him for ransom or reward; (2) use him as a shield or hostage; (3) inflict bodily injury upon him or subject him to conduct defined as criminal in chapter 11; (4) terrorize him or a 3rd person; (5) facilitate the commission of another crime by any person or flight thereafter; or (6) interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function; or B. He knowingly restrains another person: (1) under circumstances which, in fact, expose such other person to risk of serious bodily injury; or (2) by secreting and holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Long“A. Removing him from his residence, place of business, or from a school; or B. Moving him a substantial distance from the vicinity where he is found; or C. Confining him for a substantial period either in the place where the restriction commences or in a place to which he has been moved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Long
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.