Earls v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Hall v. State (2007), Hartsfield v. State (2010)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Bowden v. State · McClain v. State · Campbell v. State · Parr v. State · Hughes 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he property simply had to be taken from the physical body of the person or from their grasp or immediate possession, i.e., money in a pocket, or from one’s hand or a purse which was with the person and is viewed almost as an extension of the person. Whether or not an actual touching occurred during such act of taking did not matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Remo v. State“[IJnterest in punishing conduct which involves the risk of injury inherent in taking property from a person has been carried over into the current theft statute as a jurisdictional or punishment element which makes the theft a felony regardless of the value of the property taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Remo 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.