Kail v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Dodson v. Allstate Insurance (2001), Anderson v. State (2004)
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 Berna v. State · Matthews v. Rodgers · Rainey v. State · Gates v. State · Griffin v. State
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.
“(a) A person commits manslaughter if: ... [t]he person causes the death of another person under circumstances that would be murder, except that he or she causes the death under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there is reasonable excuse.... The reasonableness of the excuse is determined from the viewpoint of a person in the actor’s situation under the circumstances as the actor believed them to be[J”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas v. State · Jackson v. State“In the present case, there was proof of intense anger on the part of Spann after the victim, who purportedly had been drinking, accused Spann’s son of theft and demanded retribution from Spann. But there was no proof of provocation in the form of physical fighting, a threat, or a brandished weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacKool v. State“physical fighting, a threat, or a brandished weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas v. State
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.