Fairchild v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1) adequate provocation; 2) passion or emotion such as anger, rage, fear, or terror; 3) a homicide occurring during a state of passion; and 4) the existence of a casual connection between the provocation, passion and homicide.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Arthur Donnell Miller Jr v. Ron Champion

2. “perpetrated without a design to effect death, and in a heat of passion, but in a cruel and unusual manner, or by means of a dangerous weapon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. William Clifford Bryson v. Ronald Ward