English v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Brown v. State (1986), Self v. State (1986)
29 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 Chapman v. State of California · Payton v. New York · Steagald v. United States · Denham v. State · Williams 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court does not require expert testimony in every case to support an implied finding by a jury that a particular weapon is a deadly one.... Rather, we assay the facts of a particular case to determine whether the manner of the weapon’s use and intended use was such as to allow the jury to infer that the weapon was deadly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cervantes v. State
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.