State v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2010
6 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. Odom · United States v. McCaskill · State v. Strickland · State v. Williams · State v. Torain
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“likely [to] result in death or serious bodily injury. . . . the only reasonable inference is that the cord as used by [the] defendant was a dangerous weapon as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medlin“An instrument which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm under the circumstances of its use is properly denominated a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medlin“'the alleged deadly weapon and the manner of its use are of such character as to admit of but one conclusion'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medlin
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.