State v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 486 So. 2d 106 - State v. Lombard (1986), 450 So. 2d 621 - State v. Jackson (1984)
106 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Blockburger v. United States · Alexander v. Louisiana · Avery v. State of Georgia · 385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rovocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds the offender's blood had actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Maddox · State v. Mullins“"External circumstances constituting `provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self control and cool reflection' may be responsible for generating a specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm. That degree of provocation may reduce the homicide to manslaughter if the culpable state of mind arises while the sudden passion is still in effect." State v. Tompkins, 403 So.2d 644 , 648 n. 3 (La.1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Negligent homicide is a lesser grade of the offense of manslaughter, even though it is not legislatively responsive. C.Cr.P. art. 814 does not list negligent homicide as a verdict responsive to manslaughter, but prior to the enactment of C.Cr.P. art 814 (and its predecessor R.S. 15:386) negligent homicide was held to be a responsive, lesser grade of the offenses of murder and manslaughter. See R.S. 14:5, official revision comment; State v. Stanford, [ 204 La. 439 ] 15 So.2d 817 (La.1943).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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