Heaps v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2021
12 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 19 Cal. 4th 142 - People v. Breverman · Love v. State · 23 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Coddington · Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Peck · Hawley v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prior Alaska [appellate] decisions have construed [Alaska Criminal] Rule 30(b) to require a trial judge to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense when the lesser offense is supported by the evidence and either the defendant or the State asks for the instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawson v. State“The dictates of the rule are satisfied only if the judge is clearly made aware of the alleged error in or omission from the instructions. Counsel's objections must be specific enough to clearly bring into focus the precise nature of the asserted error. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lengele v. State“creates a high likelihood that the jury followed an erroneous theory(,] resulting in a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickie v. State
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.