State v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Clark (1980), State v. Nash (1985)
6 federal appellate · 96 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the general rule that mere language, however aggravated, abusive, opprobrious or indecent, whether directed at the slayer personally or spoken concerning his female relative, is not sufficient provocation to reduce a killing ... from premeditated murder to manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vickers““1. His capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Steelman“heat of passion ... as would naturally be aroused in the mind of an ordinarily reasonable person under the same facts and circumstances,”
1 later decision 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.