Word v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2023
9 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 · Robertson v. State · Chao v. State · Downs v. State · Williams 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree when the person commits the crime of robbery in the second degree and when, in the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight therefrom, the person . . . [c]auses physical injury to any person who is not a participant in the crime. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. FEDORKOWICZ v. State“(a) In a criminal prosecution, the voluntary out-of-court prior statement of a witness who is present and subject to cross-examination may be used as affirmative evidence with substantive independent testimonial value”). . See Harrigan v. State, 447 A.2d 1191, 1193 (Del.1982) (holding that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. State“sat behind the driver in a moving cab and told the driver that he had a gun.” Id. (quoting McKamey, 1997 WL 45060 at ). We said in Word that we did not”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton 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.