Grotti v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Whalen v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“(a) a person is dead when, according to ordinary standards of medical practice, there is irreversible cessation of the person’s spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions. (b) if artificial means of support preclude a determination that a person’s spontaneous respiratory and circulatory functions have ceased, the person is dead when, in the announced opinion of a physician, according to ordinary standards of medical practice, there is irreversible cessation of all spontaneous brain function. Death occurs when the relevant functions cease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Grotti v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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