3 Utah 2d 230 - State v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2013
2 district · 11 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. Tighe · 36 Cal. App. 2d 41 - People v. Payton · Childers v. Commonwealth · State v. Mayo · State v. Russell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile we will not ordinarily raise questions of error on our own motion ... in capital cases when the interests of justice so require the entire proceeding should be reviewed to determine whether errors occurred as a consequence of which the accused did not have a fair trial, even though not assigned and argued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Osborn“whether the declarant at the time of the declaration so fully expected to die from an existing affliction that he [or she] had in fact abandoned all hope of recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Manes“must be more than a mere possibility or probability of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Manes
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.