State v. Franks’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably State v. Huffstetler (1984), State v. Weeks (1988)
63 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 Lutwak v. United States · Andrews v. United States · Beal v. Franklin · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisiana · State v. Greene
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Involuntary manslaughter is the unintentional killing of a human being by an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony or by an act done in a criminally negligent way. For you to find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter, the State must prove two things beyond a reasonable doubt. First, that the defendant acted unlawfully and the defendant’s act was unlawful if it was an assault with a deadly weapon. An assault with a deadly weapon is the in tentional and unjustified pointing of a deadly weapon or a pistol at one by another. And a .22 caliber pistol is a deadly weapon. Second, the State must prove that this unlawful act proximately caused [decedent’s] death. [I]f you do not find the defendant guilty of second degree murder or voluntary manslaughter, but the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self defense, then you must determine whether the defendant is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that . . . [defendant] assaulted [decedent] with a deadly weapon, thereby proximately causing [her] death, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease or deficiency of mind as to be incapable of knowing the nature and quality of his act or, if he did know this, of distinguishing between right and wrong in relation to the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.