Henry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1978
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 172 So. 2d 824 - Hedges v. State · Hysler v. State · Stills v. State · Jackson v. State · Brown 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a court cannot give a complete instruction on manslaughter without defining excusable and justifiable homicide and murder, we conclude that a court can certainly define first and second degree murder fully without also defining manslaughter. The reason for this conclusion is that, unlike the definition of manslaughter, which definition specifically excludes murder, the definitions of first and second degree murder do not by definition specifically exclude manslaughter. Therefore, a court may completely define first degree murder and second degree murder without making any reference to manslaughter and excusable and justifiable homicide.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kiley 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.