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← 359 SO2D 1389 - Perkins v. State

Perkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2001
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ransom v. State · Denham v. State · Williams v. State · 278 So. 2d 456 - Rush v. State · Knight 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that [the defendant] killed the deceased without malice, under the bona fide belief, but without reasonable cause therefor, that it was necessary for him so to do in order to prevent the appellant from inflicting death or great bodily harm upon him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, but in a cruel or unusual manner, or by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense, shall be manslaughter.”
    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.