Ohio v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Shane (1992), State v. D'Ambrosio (1993)
45 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Smith v. Illinois · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person, while under extreme emotional stress brought on by serious provocation reasonably sufficient to incite him into using deadly force, shall knowingly cause the death of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Durkin“[n]either the degree of care nor the length of time the offender takes to ponder the crime beforehand are critical factors in themselves,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. D'Ambrosio““(A) No person shall purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the death of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.