State v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Phillips (1995), State v. Shane (1992)
5 federal appellate · 151 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · 21 Ohio St. 3d 91 - State v. Martin · State v. Poole
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, either of which was brought on by serious provocation....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] defendant on trial for murder must show by a preponderance of the evidence that he or she acted under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, brought on by the victim's serious provocation, in order to be convicted of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Nichter · State v. Angel“[p]rovocation is not an element of the crime of voluntary manslaughter”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Gore · Rhodes v. Brigano
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.