Powers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2008
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 38 Ill. 2d 331 - The People v. Crews · Wright v. State · State v. Brown · Robinson v. State · Johnson 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anger, rage, resentment, or terror sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary person, preventing deliberation and premeditation, excluding malice, and rendering a person incapable of cool reflection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State“A trial court should grant the requested voluntary manslaughter instruction if the evidence demonstrates a serious evidentiary dispute regarding the mitigating factor of sudden heat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State“knowingly or intentionally kills another human being while acting under sudden heat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingle 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.