Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sandstrom v. Montana · Rose v. Clark · State v. Elmore · State v. King · Carter 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the offenses of murder and manslaughter are submitted, the jury must be instructed that “if they had a reasonable doubt as to whether the appellant was guilty of murder or manslaughter, it was their duty to resolve that doubt in his favor, and find him guilty of the lesser offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clifton“the unlawful killing of another without malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knoten
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.