Spears v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co. · Morgan v. United States · Robnett v. United States · CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood · Humphrey v. Smith
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.
“Extreme emotional disturbance is a temporary state of mind so enraged, inflamed, or disturbed as to overcome one's judgment, and to cause one to act uncontrollably from the impelling force of the extreme emotional disturbance rather than from evil or malicious purposes. It is not a mental disease in itself, and an enraged, inflamed, or disturbed emotional state does not constitute an extreme emotional disturbance unless there is a reasonable explanation or excuse therefor, the reasonableness of which is to be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the defendant's situation under circumstances as [the] defendant believed them to be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Though the two are similar, they are not identical.... ... Gall v. Commonwealth [Ky., 607 S.W.2d 97, 108-109 (1980), cert. denied 450 U.S. 989 , 101 S.Ct. 1529 , 67 L.Ed.2d 824 (1981)], overruled on other grounds Payne v. Commonwealth, [Ky., 623 S.W.2d 867 (1981)] highlighted the two primary distinctions between EED and sudden heat of passion. Quoting from the commentary to KRS 507.030, the Court in Gall stated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse, the reasonableness of which is to be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the defendant's situation under the circumstances as the defendant believed them to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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