State v. Reffitt’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Amaya-Ruiz (1990), State v. Winegar (1985)
55 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 Anders v. California · Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Sandstrom v. Montana · Dunaway v. New York
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 13-1103. Manslaughter; classification A. A person commits manslaughter by: 1. Recklessly causing the death of another person; or 2. Committing second degree murder as defined in § 13-1104, subsection A upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion resulting from adequate provocation by the victim;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reid
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.