State v. Shane’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 643 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 656 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Trimble (2009), State v. Williams (1996)
2 federal appellate · 643 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 State v. Deem · State v. Thomas · State v. Kidder · Ohio v. Wilkins · State v. Tyler
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 656 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient to arouse the passions of an ordinary person beyond the power of his or her control.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person, while under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, either of which is brought on by serious provocation occasioned by the victim that is reasonably sufficient to incite the person into using deadly force, shall knowingly cause the death of another * * *.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage“the evidence presented at trial would reasonably support both an acquittal on the charged crime of murder and a conviction for voluntary manslaughter.”
39 later decisions 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.