People v. Starks’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2024
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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An assault may be established by showing ... an unlawful act that places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving an immediate battery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] battery [is] "an intentional, unconsented and harmful or offensive touching of the person of another, or of something closely connected with the person." It does not matter whether the touching caused an injury. Further, ... an assault [is] "an attempt to commit a battery or an unlawful act that places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving an immediate battery."”
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.