State v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2016
6 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 Sorenson v. St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Spaeth · State v. Soto · Heaslip v. Freeman · State v. Seifert
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even after the supreme court ruled that a BB gun could be a firearm under the aggravated robbery and mandatory minimum sentence statutes, the legislature has reenacted the criminal statutes without giving “firearm” another definition and, thus, has presumptively adopted the supreme court’s definition. See MinmStat § 645.17(4) (1992) (when a court of last resort has interpreted a statute, the legislature in subsequent laws on the same subject matter intends the same interpretation to be used); W. Union Tel. Co. v. Spaeth, 232 Minn. 128, 132 , 44 N.W.2d 440, 442 (1950) (“reenactment of a statute without change, after construction ... by the court, presumptively constitutes an adoption of such construction”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In our opinion, the fact that the gun defendant used required gas rather than gunpowder to discharge its projectile does not mean, as defendant contends, that the gun could not be a firearm within the meaning of the term “firearm” used in [section] 609.02. Having statutory purpose in mind, we think that term should be defined broadly to include guns using newer types of projectile propellants and should not be restricted in meaning to guns using gunpowder. In this respect we note that [section] 97.40, subd. 34, defines “firearms” for purposes of game and fish laws as “any gun from which shot or a projectile is discharged by means of an explosive, gas, or compressed air.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The gun used by defendant might also qualify as a dangerous weapon under the alternative test contained in [section] 609.02 (“any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm”). In any event, defendant also admitted at the change-of-plea hearing that to the best of his knowledge the gun his accomplice used was a firearm. In conclusion, defendant’s testimony at the change-of-plea hearing provided a sufficient factual basis for the plea....”
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.