State v. Tysor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he term “cool state of blood” does not mean that the defendant must be calm or tranquil or display the absence of emotion; rather, the defendant’s anger or emotion must not have been such as to disturb the defendant’s faculties and reason. State v. Myers, 299 N.C. 671 , 263 S.E. 2d 768 (1980); State v. Britt, 285 N.C. 256 , 204 S.E. 2d 817 (1974). The fact that there was a quarrel does not preclude the possibility that the defendant formed the intent to kill with premeditation and deliberation. State v. Tysor, 307 N.C. 679 , 300 S.E. 2d 366 (1983); State v. Misenheimer, 304 N.C. 108 , 282 S.E. 2d 791 (1981).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rogers · State v. Hill

2. “Premeditation means that defendant formed the specific intent to kill the victim for some period of time, however short, before the actual killing. Deliberation means that the intent to kill was formed while defendant was in a cool state of blood and not under the influence of a violent passion suddenly aroused by sufficient provocation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rogers