State v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

48 state decisions

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[T]o the extent that it is necessary to determine whether the district court's response was a correct statement of the law, we are presented with a legal question, subject to unlimited review. But when looking at which legally appropriate response the court should have made, we accord the trial court the deference of looking to whether no reasonable person would have given the response adopted by the trial court.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Lewis · State v. Blansett

2. “'any intense or vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting violent and aggressive action.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Bernhardt · State v. Stafford

3. “[A]n intentional homicide committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion engendered by adequate provocation, and not the result of malice conceived before the provocation, is voluntary manslaughter. Suffice it to say further, although there was some evidence of prior quarreling and even of a blow being struck by the decedent, we believe insufficient provocation existed to reduce to voluntary manslaughter the eventual strangulation of one flat on his back in a disabled condition. [Citation omitted.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Stafford · State v. Uk