Roark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Spranger v. State (1995), Stevens v. State (1997)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 Warren v. State · Ingram v. State · Palmer v. State · Fox v. State · Bryan 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An instruction on voluntary manslaughter is supported if there exists evidence of sufficient provocation to induce passion that renders the reasonable person incapable of cool reflection. We have repeatedly held that any appreciable evidence of sudden heat justifies an instruction on voluntary manslaughter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“anger, rage, sudden resentment, or terror that is sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary person, prevent deliberation and premeditation, and render the defendant incapable of cool reflection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Massey v. State“Any appreciable evidence of sudden heat justifies an instruction on voluntary manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Brown 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.