182 Ind. App. 256 - Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2005
9 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 Davis v. State · McDonald v. State · Gatchett v. State · 163 Ind. App. 276 - Hopkins v. State · 165 Ind. App. 221 - Landers 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voluntary manslaughter is an unlawful, intentional killing of a human being, without malice and with premeditation. Although the statute adds ‘upon a sudden heat,’ it is only in the application of the definition to a given case that this element must be made use of, for there could be< no such thing as an unlawful intentional killing without malice, unless it was done upon a sudden heat. This mitigating fact reduces the crime to manslaughter, if upon the whole evidence it appears sufficient to rebut the presumption of malice arising from a voluntary killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State““(b) The existence of a sudden heat is a mitigating factor that reduces what otherwise would be murder under section 1(1) [35 — 42-1-1(1)] of this chapter to voluntary manslaughter. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. State
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.