State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Gartland (1997), State v. Josephs (2002)
62 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. Crisantos (Arriagas) · State v. Powell · State v. Weleck · State v. Choice · State v. Mauricio
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Passion/provocation manslaughter has four elements: the provocation must be adequate; the defendant must not have had time to cool off between the provocation and the slaying; the provocation must have actually impassioned the defendant; and the defendant must not have actually cooled off before the slaying. [ State v. Mauricio, 117 N.J. 402, 411 , 568 A. 2d 879 (1990).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Passion/provocation manslaughter is an intentional homicide committed under extenuating circumstances that mitigate the murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for commission of the crime, he: (1) Purposely engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as a reasonable person would believe them to be; (2) When causing a particular result is an element of the crime, does or omits to do anything with the purpose of causing such result without further conduct on his part; or (3) Purposely does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as a reasonable person would believe them to be, is an act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime.”
1 later decision 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.