State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2022
13 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Neal v. State of California · Killian v. United States · Vigil v. State · Goodman v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“offenses committed against multiple victims are not the same, for double jeopardy purposes even though they may arise from the same criminal episode.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant who commits an act of violence with the intent to harm more than one person or by a means likely to cause harm to several persons is more culpable than a defendant who harms only one person. For example, a defendant who chooses a means of murder that places a planeload of passengers in danger, or results in injury to many persons, is properly subject to greater punishment than a defendant who chooses a means that harms only a single person. This distinction between an act of violence against the person that violates more than one statute and such an act that harms more than one person is well settled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mane“his actions constituted a single criminal act, hence his constitutional right to not be twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense was violated.”
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.