State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
3 federal appellate · 193 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 Harrington v. California · Babich v. United States · Hyde v. United States · State v. Unger · Drew v. United States
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he act of pointing a deadly weapon at another, without additional evidence regarding the actor's intention, is insufficient to convict a defendant of the offense of `felonious assault' * * *.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(A) No person shall knowingly do either of the following: {¶ 63} "(2) Cause or attempt to cause physical harm to another or to another's unborn by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance * * *.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause serious physical harm to the person or property of such other person or member of his immediate family.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Sizemore · State v. Green
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.