State v. Kunkel’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2022
12 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 State v. Olson · State v. Schill · State v. Breding · State v. Martinsons · State v. Gonderman
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.
“Christopher Anderson testified Kunkel showed him a ring that belonged to Fas-sett, and said “You see this? You’re going to get the same thing that Gilbert got.” Mark Demarce testified that Kunkel admitted he killed and mutilated Fassett and dumped Fassett’s body on the Fort Totten reservation. Sandra Austin testified that Kunkel admitted “stabbing [Fassett] over and over and over and over.” Rodney Maier and Shelley Rutten testified that Kunkel admitted fighting with Fassett and said “the better man won.” Nicholas Elston testified that Kunkel admitted stabbing Fas-sett with the help of a third person. Fred Nakken testified that Kunkel admitted holding Fassett while a third person stabbed Fassett.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rümmer v. State · Rummer v. State“Kunkel and Fassett were together for a significant amount of time on August 1, 1986, the last day Fassett was seen alive; Fassett was carrying a great deal of money that day; when last seen alive around 10:30 p.m. on August 1, Fassett was with Kunkel; Kunkel was nervous and behaving strangely at the time; Fassett probably died sometime in the late evening of August 1 or early morning of August 2.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rümmer v. State · Rummer v. State““In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to convict, we look only to the evidence most favorable to the verdict and the reasonable inferences therefrom to see if there is substantial evidence to warrant a conviction. A conviction rests upon insufficient evidence only when no rational fact finder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution and giving the prosecution the benefit of all inferences reasonably to be drawn in its favor.” State v. Kunkel, 548 N.W.2d 773, 773 (N.D.1996) (quoting State v. ScMll, 406 N.W.2d 660, 660 (N.D.1987) (citations omitted)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knowels
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.