State v. Van Vleck’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2016
8 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. Harris · State v. Gonzales · State v. Walker · State v. Garner · State v. Estes
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the crime of kidnapping if he unlawfully removes another without his consent from the place where he is found or unlawfully confines another without his consent for a substantial period, for the purpose of [[Image here]] (4) Facilitating the commission of any felony or flight thereaffcer[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keeler · White v. State“As applied to the facts in the case at bar, to prove an attempt to kidnap Angel would require sufficient evidence that [the defendant] intended to remove her from her present location or confine her without her consent in order to inflict physical injury or terrorize her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keeler“The appellant's repeated threats to kill Johnson's child coupled with his demand that Johnson get into her car inferred [sic] that he intended, at the least, to unlawfully confine them with the purpose to terrorize Johnson by threatening violence to her small child.”
1 later decision 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.