Nance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
September 2010
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Jackson v. Denno · Wainwright v. Witt · Scharffe v. Perkins · Almanza 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant creates the circumstances which instigate the inflaming of that defendant’s passions, particularly when a defendant is an aggressor, the precip-itator of a confrontation, or attempting to commit a crime when allegedly inflamed by another’s response.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Westbrook 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.