State v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1976), State v. McCrary (1984)
43 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. Smith · State v. Grugin · State v. Pruett · State v. Dickens · State v. Buffington
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter is the unlawful killing’ of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds: 1st. Voluntary: Upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion. 2nd. Involuntary: In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Luttrell““There is no reason to say that the principle involved is any different in a circumstantial evidence case, from a case in which the evidence is direct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stewart
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.