66 Md. App. 567 - Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Burch v. State (1997), Sims v. State (1990)
29 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 Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Thomas v. State · 33 Md. App. 115 - Bartram v. State · 36 Md. App. 459 - Tripp v. State · 9 Md. App. 7 - Whitehead 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) There must have been adequate provocation; (2) The killing must have been in the heat of passion; (3) It must have been a sudden heat of passion — that is, the killing must have followed the provocation before there had been a reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool; (4) There must have been a causal connection between the provocation, the passion, and the fatal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Girouard v. State · Sims v. State“The rules of law stated in the proposed questions were fully and fairly covered in subsequent instructions to the jury. It is generally recognized that it is inappropriate to instruct on the law at this stage of the case, or to question the jury as to whether or not they would be disposed to follow or apply stated rules of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the analysis of this element, we are concerned with the objective test.”
1 later decision 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.