16 Utah 2d 102 - State v. Gallegos’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Bishop (1988), 30 Utah 2d 54 - State v. Valdez (1973)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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. Cobo · State v. Russell · State v. Thompson · State v. Roedl · State v. Trujillo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Also, it is generally held, under ordinary factual situations, that where a jury finds the defendant guilty of a greater offense, the giving of an erroneous instruction on a lesser offense is not prejudicial. If the jury were convinced from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that defendants were guilty of second degree murder, the failure to spell out in detail the required intentions for voluntary manslaughter could not reasonably influence their decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should mold the instructions to fit the facts shown, using language understood by lay people and blend the instructions to fit the facts disclosed by the evidence and make them as clear in meaning and concise as possible without requiring belabored legal definitions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“that under ordinary factual situations where a jury finds the defendant guilty of a greater offense, the giving of an erroneous instruction on a lesser offense is not deemed prejudicial.”
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.