Smedley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Belisle v. Anzivino
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For sudden heat to reduce murder to manslaughter, there must be sufficient provocation to arouse the emotions of an ordinary person so as to obscure his reasoning powers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gilreath v. Hanks · Weaver v. State“We see little danger of prejudice from such a general characterization of the case as alleged in counsel's verbatim objection. Moreover, we observe that appellant never requested the trial court to question the jurors whether they had been prejudiced by any such remarks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Threats v. State
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.