State v. Abeyta’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), State v. Coffin (1999)
2 district · 71 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Lee v. Brown · State v. Sutphin · Crawford v. State · State v. Lankford
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yarborough“One requirement of self-defense is that the force used must be reasonable in relation to the threat. The use of excessive force in self-defense renders the entire action unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sutphin“Where the evidence presents two conflicting versions of the same events, `a party may reasonably infer, and thus, argue, that the other side is lying.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kane
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.