State v. Ashness’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Bido (2008), State v. Gordon (1986)
1 federal appellate · 42 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Missouri v. Hunter · Ungar v. Sarafite · Chandler v. Warden Fretag · Ng Kam Fook v. P a Esperdy
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual present ability to inflict harm on the victim by using a dangerous weapon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'unlawful attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another [or to put] another in fear of violence.' ” State v. Ashness, — R.I. —, —, 461 A.2d 659, 665 (1983) (quoting State v. Baker, 20 R.I. 275, 277 , 38 A. 653, 654 (1897)). When that attempt is made so that there is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lemon“several rulings that individually are not erroneous cannot cumulatively constitute prejudicial error”
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.