State v. Fransua’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Isiah (1989), State v. MacKrill (2008)
46 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. Pace · Banovitch v. Commonwealth · State v. McFall · Martin v. Commonwealth · State v. Sims
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consent is not a defense to the crime of aggravated battery” even though the defendant alleged that the”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Durr v. State · Govan v. State“On March 3,1972 both defendant and the victim were in a bar in Albuquerque. Defendant had apparently been drinking heavily that day and the previous day. Sometime around 3:00 p.m. after an argument, defendant made a statement to the victim to the effect that if he (defendant) had a gun, he would shoot the victim. The victim then left the bar, went to his own automobile, removed a loaded pistol from the automobile and returned to the bar. He approached the defendant, laid the pistol on the bar and made the following statement: “I told him (defendant) that there was the gun, that if he wanted to shoot me to go ahead.” Defendant then picked up the pistol, put the barrel next to the victim’s head and pulled the trigger, wounding him seriously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacKrill“broad discretionary powers in supervising the selection of jurors,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marquez
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.