State v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. United States · State v. Burke · State v. Caruolo · State v. Henshaw
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refers to an act that was intended to cause, and does cause, an offensive contact with or unconsented touching of or trauma upon the body of another, thereby generally resulting in the consummation of the assault.” Coningford, 901 A.2d at 630 (internal quotation marks omitted); accord, e.g., State v. Davis, 120 R.I. 82 , 384 A.2d 1061, 1064 (1978) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An assault, as ordinarily defined, is any unlawful attempt or offer with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another, whether from malice or wantonness. The offense may consist also in putting another in fear of violence.”
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.