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← 533 SW3D 710 - State v. Clay

State v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Brown · State v. Celis-Garcia · State of Missouri v. Bruce Pierce · State v. Primm · State v. Deck

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

  1. “so misdirected or failed to instruct the jury that manifest injustice or miscarriage of justice has resulted.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Voluntary manslaughter is defined as causing the death of another person under circumstances that would constitute murder in the second degree, except that the death was caused under the influence of sudden passion arising from adequate cause.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “A claim of error is not wholly preserved absent a timely objection at trial.”
    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.