Tarter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Bland v. Sirmons (2006), Commonwealth v. Polimeni (1977)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Nobles v. State of Georgia · 84 Okla. Crim. 97 - Sadler v. State · 95 Okla. Crim. 60 - Toms v. State · People v. . Huter · 82 Okla. Crim. 5 - Bingham 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In a prosecution for murder the court should submit the case to the jury for consideration upon every degree of homicide which the evidence in any reasonable view of it suggests, and if the evidence tends to prove different degrees, the law on each degree which the evidence tends to prove should be submitted to the jury”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Laymon v. State · Bland v. State“... but only by that of a few lay witnesses on the question of insanity at the time of the shooting. Nevertheless, it was within their province to believe the testimony of the lay witnesses to [sic] disregard of the medical testimony, if they chose to do so. The law makes no distinction in weighing evidence in expert testimony and evidence of other character, and it is for the jury and not the reviewing court to determine the weight to be given such evidence. (Citations omitted), Tarter, supra, at 600 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yates v. State · Ballou v. State““ * * * whether there is any evidence tending to reduce the degree of the homicide from murder to manslaughter, the trial court should give the defendant the benefit of any doubt * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Laymon 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.