28 Utah 2d 279 - State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2017
9 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 70 Cal. 2d 711 - People v. Morse · 28 Utah 2d 96 - State v. Gee · State v. Jones
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are mitigatory factors which, if proven by a preponderance of the evidence by the defendant, diminish the degree of culpability and reduce the grade of his offense from murder to manslaughter. Where the defendant asserts that he acted in the heat of passion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“two variables must be weighed in relation to each otherthe degree of provocation and the measures employed by the defendant in response to it.”
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.