Forehand v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 493 So. 2d 1019 - Wilson v. State (1986), 104 So. 2d 352 - Larry v. State (1958)
6 federal appellate · 51 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 Armstrong v. State · Savage v. State · Fuller v. State · Lowe v. State · Buchanan 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the element of premeditation is an essential ingredient of the crime of murder in the first degree, it is necessary that the fact of premeditation uninfluenced or uncontrolled by a dominating passion sufficient to obscure the reason based upon an adequate provocation must be established beyond a reasonable doubt before it can be said that the accused was guilty of murder in the first degree ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clay v. State“[A] well-defined purpose to kill may be induced, compelled, or constrained by anger of such degree as for the moment to cloud the reason and momentarily obscure what might otherwise be a deliberate purpose by its impelling influence. ... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tien Wang v. State“calculated to excite such anger as might obscure the reason or dominate the volition of an ordinary reasonable man”
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.