People v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2022
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Thiret v. Kautzky · People v. Bramlett · Charnes v. Lobato · Climax Molybdenum Co. v. Walter · People v. Warner
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Deadly weapon" means any of the following which in the manner it is used or intended to be used is capable of producing death or serious bodily injury: (I) A firearm, whether loaded or unloaded; (I1) A knife; (III) A bludgeon; (IV) Any other weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, whether animate or inanimate.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] ny object can be a deadly weapon if it is used in a manner capable of producing death or serious bodily injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fists may be deadly weapons if in the manner they are used or intended to be used they are capable of producing death or serious bodily injury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.