State v. Masino’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Salamon (2008), United States v. Ferguson (1985)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 People v. Daniels · Drews v. Maryland · Monks v. New Jersey · 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein · People v. Chessman
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is guilty of kidnapping if [s]he [by force or threat] removes another from his place of residence or business, or a substantial distance from the vicinity where he is found ... in order [t]o facilitate commission of any crime or flight thereafter.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ne is transported a `substantial distance' if that asportation is criminally significant in the sense of being more than merely incidental to the underlying crime.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by maximizing the kidnapper's incentive to return the victim unharmed, the legislature realized that the risk of harm attendant upon isolation is the principal danger of the crime.”
3 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.