78 Ark. App. 103 - Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2026
2 federal appellate · 10 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 State v. Stephenson · 25 Ark. App. 353 - Knight v. State · 60 Ark. App. 246 - McGill v. State · Trammell v. State · Vanesch 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile it is clear that the statute does not require that the threat be communicated directly to the person threatened, the gravamen of the offense is the communication, not utterance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“threatens to cause death or serious physical injury or substantial property damage to another person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“impose criminal liability for threats made in reckless disregard of the risk causing the terror.”
2 later decisions 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.