Temples v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2000
6 federal appellate · 11 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 City of San Antonio v. Hamilton · 4 Smith & H. 7 - Curran v. State · 8 Smith & H. 23 - Davis v. State · 9 Smith & H. 1 - Tramell v. Tramell · McElroy 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In view of the unusual circumstances of the instant ease, it is not surprising that the trial judge stated that the defendant was acting under great provocation. In Curran v. State, 157 Tenn. 7 , 4 S.W.2d 957 [1928], the Court held that under our system the trial court is the forum in which the guilt or innocence of a defendant is primarily determined; and the presiding judge wields the scales of justice between the State and the defendant, and where, in his opinion, the defendant is not proved guilty, it is his duty to grant him a new trial. When the trial judge simply overrules a motion for a new trial presumably he approves the verdict, but such is not the case where he affirmatively states that he passes upon neither the guilt nor innocence of the defendant, and is glad that such responsibility does not rest upon him. There is nothing to indicate that the trial judge did not approve the degree of homicide which the defendant was convicted of. We cannot construe his language to mean that he disapproved the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Braden
How this case has been treated — in progress
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