State v. Wetmore’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Hicks v. Miranda · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Rivera v. Delaware
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[I]f one takes life, though in defense of his own life, in a quarrel which he himself has commenced with intent to take life or inflict serious bodily harm, the jeopardy in which he has been placed by the act of his adversary constitutes no defense whatever, but he is guilty of murder. But, if he commenced the quarrel with no intent to take life or inflict grievous bodily harm, then he is not acquitted of all responsibility for the affray which arose from his own act, but his offense is reduced from murder to manslaughter.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Mize · State v. Norris
How this case has been treated — in progress
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