State v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
November 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel · State v. Faulkner · State v. Bowens · State v. Wheelock · State v. Doucette
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of another, without malice, and may be either voluntary, as when the act is committed with a real design and purpose to kill, but through the violence of sudden passion occasioned by some great provocation, which . . . the law considers sufficient to palliate the offenee; or involuntary, as when the death of another is caused by some unlawful act, not accompanied with any intention to take life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shabazz
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.