Farrow v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1988
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weldon v. United States · 13 Utah 2d 195 - State v. Brennan · Jennings v. State · Barbeau v. United States · Clown Horse 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For many years the definition of second degree murder has been the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought, and ... manslaughter was the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. In our opinion the new criminal code has not changed those definitions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Standiford“the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Standiford
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.