State v. Kea’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice and without premeditation and deliberation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cousins · 199 N.C. App. 616 - State v. LALIBERTE

2. “. . . “Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice but without premeditation and deliberation, as I have said to you, and is of two kinds, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary manslaughter, as I have said, is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice but without premeditation and deliberation.” . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cousins