McKinney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “there was an adequate provocation, that a passion or an emotion such as fear, terror, anger, rage, or resentment existed, that the homicide occurred while the passion still existed and before there was reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool; and that there was a causal connection between the provocation, the passion, and the homicide.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brandon Cornett v. State

2. “cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mejia v. Stephens

3. ““the defendant may raise tire issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gregory Griffin v. State