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← 849 SW2D 637 - State v. Scheets

State v. Scheets’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lewis v. Adamson · Danial Siebert v. Alabama · State v. Griffin · Sidebottom 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a degree of passion... sufficient to substantially impair an ordinary person's capacity for self-control.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “so extreme that for the moment, the action is being directed by passion, not reason.”
    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.