State v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2014
10 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 United States v. Agurs · 353 So. 2d 1315 - State v. Franklin · State v. Gilmore · 390 So. 2d 1296 - State v. Carpenter · Burley v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.
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.
“[E]ven if the evidence of the allegedly unprovoked and unprivileged assaultive behavior was not sufficient to establish justification, it was relevant for the purpose of presenting to the jury the theory that defendant was guilty only of manslaughter, by showing that the killing was committed in a "heat of passion" provoked by Taylor's misconduct. See R.S. 14:31(1). See also State v. McAllister, 366 So.2d 1340 (La.1978) and State v. Peterson, 290 So.2d 307 (La.1974), discussing "heat of passion" and "provocation" as mitigating elements in the "nature of a defense".”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dill“allegations material and their late presentation excusable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.