Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1992
14 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 Baker 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present situation in Georgia with respect to the felony murder rule is caused in part by the language of [OCGA § 16-5-l(c)], which does not in any way limit the felonies invoking the rule. As we noted hypothetically in Baker v. State, 236 Ga. 754 ( 225 SE2d 269 ) (1976), we could have a “felony murder” arising out of a death associated with bribery. That is plainly nonsensical, though it is in effect what the legislature has decreed. Though we do not confront that situation in the instant case, we note our hesitancy to conclude that such a death would be “caused” by the felony, within the meaning of [OCGA § 16-5-l(c)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“voluntary manslaughter is a lesser included offense of felony murder, as we read [OCGA § 16-5-1, defining murder] and [OCGA § 16-1-6, defining lesser-included offenses], because an act done in passion involves a less culpable mental state than the state of real or imputed malice which is the foundation of the felony murder rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackwell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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