Neveils v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2000
13 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 90 So. 2d 629 - Davis v. State · 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State · Bradley v. State · Adams 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no statute in this state specifically making the failure or refusal of a father to provide medical attention for his child a felony, and the general definition of “manslaughter” contained in the statute does not appear to cover a case of this nature. Neither the allegations of the indictment nor the evidence adduced at the trial show ‘the killing of’ the child 'by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of’ the father. Whatever motive may have prompted the father in failing and refusing to provide medical attention for his severely burned' daughter, such failure and refusal, however reprehensible, does not appear to be within the letter or intent of the statute making ‘the killing of a human being by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of another,’ a felony called manslaughter. It is not claimed that the allegations and proofs show that any ‘act’ or ‘procurement’ of the father caused the death of the child. Nor can it be fairly said that the allegations or proofs show that any ‘culpable negligence’ of the father caused ‘the killing of’ the child. Manifestly the death of the child was caused by the accidental burning in which the father had no part. The attentions of a physician may or may not have prevented the burning from causing the death of the child; but the absence of medical attention did not cause ‘the killing’ of the child, even if the failure or refusal of the father to provide medical attention was ‘culpable negligence’ within the intent of th”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“aid or otherwise be concerned with the safety of his wife”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of other evidence legally sufficient to contradict the defendant's explanation, his version cannot be ignored.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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