State v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 261 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
4 federal appellate · 261 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Faretta v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Cronic · State v. Dehass
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person, while under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, either of which is brought on by serious provocation occasioned by the victim that is reasonably sufficient to incite the person into using deadly force, shall knowingly cause the death of another[.]”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the evidence presented at trial would reasonably support both an acquittal on the charged crime of murder and a conviction for voluntary manslaughter.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“* * * unless it is manifestly arbitrary * * * so as to constitute an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.