State v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
18 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. Wilkerson · State v. Wrenn · State v. Dooley · State v. Fleming · State v. Ray
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant] says the cutting was not intentional. If believed, his testimony would support a finding of... an unintentional homicide resulting from the reckless use of a deadly weapon under circumstances not evidencing a heart devoid of a sense of social duty. In the setting created by such testimony, and with credibility a matter for the jury, it was not error for the court to submit involuntary manslaughter with appropriate instructions!.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Defendant's evidence, if believed, could support a verdict of involuntary manslaughter on the theory that the killing was the result of . . . reckless, but unintentional use of [a] knife. In essence, defendant’s position in the case is that the killing was unintentional and accidental for which no criminal responsibility should attach. At most, the killing was the result of [her] reckless use of the knife which would amount to involuntary manslaughter. If, however, the jury should conclude that [she] intentionally wielded the knife, then it [could] acquit [her] on the grounds of self-defense. We think all of these alternatives are supported by the evidence.”
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.