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← 356 S.C. 227 - State v. Taylor

State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Davis · State v. Burkhart · State v. Wiggins · State v. Hill · Eckhardt v. People

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

  1. “[W]here two persons mutually engage in combat, and one kills another, and at the time of the killing it be maliciously done, it is murder; if it be done in sudden heat and passion upon sufficient provocation without premeditation or malice, it would be manslaughter.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “this Court has placed great emphasis on the importance of a defendant's right to assert self-defense when there is any evidence to support it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “To warrant reversal, a trial judge's charge must be both erroneous and prejudicial.”
    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.