State v. Steffenhagen’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2013
6 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 Kentucky v. Whorton · Whorton v. Commonwealth · State v. Beishir · State v. Dickerson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involves not only conduct creating actual danger but also conduct which creates the fear of injury to the victim from the instrumentality being used,” Steffenhagen, 671 S.W.2d at 346 , and subparagraph (4) “is concerned with the fear generated by that which may be neither a deadly weapon nor a dangerous instrument but which is utilized so as to give the appearance of being such.” Humphrey, 789 S.W.2d at 189 . Accordingly,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sistrunk
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.