State v. Prewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Mincey (1981), State v. King (1994)
53 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · State v. Schantz · 24 Wis. 2d 527 - State v. Nutley · State v. Martin
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In a homicide case, it is the duty of the trial judge to instruct the jury on every grade of offense the evidence tends to show defendant guilty of,' and conversely, refuse to instruct as to other grades of the offense, of which the evidence shows he could not be guilty. * * * ” State v. Prewitt, 104 Ariz. 326, 332 , 452 P.2d 500, 506 (1969). Manslaughter is defined as follows: “Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” § 13-455 A.R.S.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. James · State v. Young““An intentional use of a deadly weapon, however, is enough to infer an intent to cause serious bodily harm to the decedent. State v. Preis, 89 Ariz. 336 , 362 P.2d 660 . This inference, in addition to the fact that there is nothing in the record to indicate that the defendant shot other than intentionally substantiate the trial court’s refusal to give an instruction in involuntary manslaughter.” State v. Prewitt, 104 Ariz. 326, 332 , 452 P.2d 500, 506 (1969). See also State v. Sorensen, 104 Ariz. 503 , 455 P.2d 981 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * The object of an opening statement is to apprise the jury of what the party expects to prove and prepare the jurors’ minds for the evidence which is to be heard. Also, the extent to which counsel is permitted to go in making his statement is within the discretion of the court. The rule of the court will only be disturbed when this discretion is abused * * State v. Prewitt, 104 Ariz. 326, 333 , 452 P.2d 500, 507 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee
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.