State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Pittman (2007), State v. Knoten (2001)
39 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 Hagemann v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n · Marathon Oil Co. v. United States · McGuire v. United States · State v. Gardner · State v. Kornahrens
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sudden heat of passion, upon sufficient legal provocation, which mitigates a felonious killing to manslaughter, while it need not dethrone reason entirely, or shut out knowledge and volition, must be such as would naturally disturb the sway of reason, and render the mind of an ordinary person incapable of cool reflection, and produce what, according to human experience, may be called an uncontrollable impulse to do violence.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grubbs · 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.