13 So. 3d 833 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2013
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer v. State · 794 So. 2d 1034 - Phillips 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.
“A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from a grade of murder to that of manslaughter. Passion or anger suddenly aroused at the time by some immediate and reasonable provocation, by words or acts of one at the time. The term includes an emotional state of mind characterized by anger, rage, hatred, furious resentment or terror.”
2 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.