State v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
255 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Harris (1998), 133 Ohio App. 3d 591 - State v. Kehoe (1999)
255 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 State v. Deem · State v. Shane · State v. Brooks · State v. Wolons · State v. Williford
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`If this objective standard is met, the inquiry shifts to a subjective standard, to determine whether the defendant in the particular case `actually was under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage.'”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]ear alone is insufficient to demonstrate the kind of emotional state necessary to constitute sudden passion or fit of rage.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“emotional and mental state of the defendant and the conditions and circumstances that surrounded him at the time.”
21 later decisions 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.