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State v. Lytton’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
January 2014
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Turner (1991), State v. Riddick (1995)

30 state decisions

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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. Foust · State v. Johnson · State v. Riera · State v. Wrenn

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

  1. “acts to negate the mens rea element of [the offense].”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “is triggered in factual situations where a defendant, without premeditation, intent, or culpable negligence, commits acts which bring about the death of another.... It is not an affirmative defense, but acts to negate the mens rea element of homicide.”
    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.