State v. Aubrey’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), Tapia v. Tansy (1991)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Smith v. State · State v. Lucero · State v. Hartley · State v. Riggsbee
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A. Voluntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion.” 1 It follows logically and obviously from the definition that, in order to convict of voluntary manslaughter, the jury must have evidence that there was a sudden quarrel or heat of passion at the time of the commission of the crime (in order, under the common law theory, to show that the killing was the result of provocation sufficient to negate the presumption of malice * * *.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson
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.