Parks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2013
3 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 Juneby v. State · Juneby v. State · Linn v. State · State v. Richards
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Parks' case, it is undisputed that no dangerous instrument was actually used or carried. The offense qualified as a first-degree robbery only because Parks verbally threatened the use of a gun. The actual risk to the victims created in these circumstances is among the lowest within the definition of first-degree robbery and borders on the risk that typically exists in a case of second-degree robbery. [17]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewandowski v. State“In determining whether conduct involved in a first-degree robbery is among the least serious within the definition of the offense, the sentencing court's primary focus must be on the extent of actual risk that was created by the use or threatened use of a dangerous instrument in the case before it. [14]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewandowski 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.