State v. Battle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2011
8 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. Irwin · State v. Leggett
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case sub judice, the trial court instructed the jury that the State has the burden of satisfying you from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that Susan Worthington as to that particular case was over the age of 18 —of 16 years and that the Defendant unlawfully confined her, restrained her or removed her from one place to another; and that if he did so, for the purpose of facilitating the commission of any felony-strike that. If he did so for the purpose of facilitating the felony of robbery, then that would constitute second degree kidnapping. The same rule applies as to Ronald Wyatt, Cynthia Oats (sic) and Linda Thompson. Furthermore, the bill alleges that these four people were restrained and confined and removed from one place to another for the purpose of facilitating an armed robbery — the felony of armed robbery.”
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.