State v. Stanford’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably State v. Tompkins (1981), State v. Gilmore (1976)
33 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. Desselles · State v. Flattmann · State v. Ritchie
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the number of jurors to try a case is determined by the gravity or nature of the crime charged and not by the verdict returned of a lesser offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Manslaughter is: "(1) A homicide which would be murder under either Article 30 (first degree murder) or Article 30.1 (second degree murder), but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self control and cool reflection. Provocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds that the offender's blood had actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tompkins“[a]n offender who commits an offense which includes all the elements of other lesser offenses, may be ... convicted of one of the lesser and included offenses”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tompkins
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.