State v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being unintentionally and without malice but proximately resulting from the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or some act done in an unlawful or culpably negligent manner (S. v. Durham, 201 N.C. 724 , 161 S.E. 398 ; S. v. Stansell, 203 N.C. 69 , 164 S.E. 580 ), and where fatal consequences of the negligent act were not improbable under all’ the facts existent at the time. . . . In S. v. Rountree, supra (181 N.C. 535, 106 S.E. 669 ), it was said that ‘Culpable negligence under the criminal law is such recklessness or carelessness, resulting in injury or death, as imports a thoughtless disregard of consequences or a heedless indifference to the safety and rights of others.’ ” State v. Williams, 231 N.C. 214 , 56 S.E. 2d 574 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 3 N.C. App. 276 - State v. Lilley