Bunkley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Stovall v. Denno · Linkletter v. Walker · Payne v. Tennessee
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any dirk, metallic knuckles, slungshot, billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or device, or other deadly weapon except a firearm or a common pocketknife.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“correctly stated the law at the time Bunkley's conviction became final,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“jurisprudential upheaval is a major constitutional change of law.”
3 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.