Roark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 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 McClain v. State · Walsh v. State · LaPierre 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. When the victim's conduct is neither directed at the defendant nor intended to influence the defendant's actions or emotions, however, the mere fact that it has the incidental effect of prompting the defendant to react, thereby contributing in a causal sense to the commission of the crime, would not in itself justify a finding of provocation. Roark, 758 P.2d at 647 . Schumacher's conduct of purchasing a new truck, and of parking his vehicle on a public street, unaware that he was within Dandova's view, is the second type of conduct discussed in this passage from Roark: it was”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Dandova v. State“the victim provoked the [defendant's] crime to a significant degree”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dandova v. State · Smith v. State“conduct ... sufficient to excite an intense passion in a reasonable person in the defendant's situation, other than a person who is intoxicated, under the cireumstances as the defendant reasonably believed them to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.