Devine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bignall v. State (1994), Ibarra v. Holder (2013)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 62 Cal. 2d 280 - People v. Victor · State v. Huett · Reynolds v. Manley · Cranford 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ready to take place, near at hand, impending, hanging threateningly over one's head, menacingly near.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mayberry v. State · Meza v. State“[n]ear at hand; mediate rather than immediate; close rather than touching; impending; on the point of happening; threatening; menacing; perilous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen robbery is effected by threats of bodily injury or placing another in fear, that fear must be of such nature as in reason and common experience is likely to induce a person to part with his property against his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bignall 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.