State v. Anspach’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2020
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Kolender v. Lawson · State v. Guzman-Juarez · State v. Hunter · State v. Thomas · State v. Robinson
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.
“in a manner that creates a substantial risk to a ... minor's physical, mental or emotional health or safety.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We find there was sufficient evidence that Anspach’s actions were creating a substantial risk to the safety of his young passengers. If he had gotten into an accident, which was a real possibility given his speeding, swerving, and attempts to elude police, these children could have been easily injured given their size and location in the truck. There was ample testimony from police and the women in the truck that An-spach’s driving caused fear for life or injury. There was also testimony that the children were upset and crying when the officer approached the vehicle. As such, when evidence of the failure to properly secure young children in safety seats is combined with evidence of An-spach’s driving conduct, sufficient evidence of child endangerment exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had control over the instrumentality contributing to the risk to the children in the truck. ... [T]he meaning of control 'applies to a person who has the ability to control the risk that the statute prohibits.' " Id . at 235. Unlike the Iowa statute, the lynchpin for establishing "care”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kraly
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.