MacKool v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
January 2015
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gaines v. State · Wright v. State · Rainey v. State · Doss v. State · Huddleston v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“may consist of anger or sudden resentment, or of fear or terror; but the passion springing from any of these causes will not alone reduce the grade of the homicide. There must also be a provocation which induced the passion, and which the law deems adequate to make the passion irresistible. An assault with violence upon another who acts under the influence thereof may be sufficient to arouse such passion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“previously declined to recognize provocation by a third party as sufficient to require instructions on manslaughter” and holding that”
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.