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← 541 NE2D 936 - Perigo v. State

Perigo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
July 2016
most recently cited

23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably State v. Shane (1992), Hulfachor v. State (2000)

23 state decisions

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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 Lockhart v. McCree · Maldonado v. State · New v. State · Johnson v. State · Boyle 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Certainly, some exhibits are inadmissible because of their prejudicial nature or lack of relevance, but an adversary’s offer to stipulate does not bear on admissibility. Each adversary must be permitted to offer and admit evidence solely on admissibility standards. Accepting Perigo’s argument would unnecessarily deny each side the proper independence with which to present its case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “she had engaged in sexual intercourse with another man, and did not know by whom she was pregnant. The defendant had unsuccessfully argued to the trial court that confessions of illicit sex are sufficient provocation for a Voluntary Manslaughter verdict. Id. On appeal, the Court reiterated the principle that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[in some cireum-stances, words may be combined with actions engendering sufficient provocation to reduce an offense from murder to manslaughter.”
    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.