Vinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 1973
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cowan v. Commonwealth · Spriggs v. Commonwealth · Hunt v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth · Lambert v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In these situations of mutual combat where one of the participants shoots, knifes, bludgeons or mauls his adversary to death, his acts being intentional and his victim known, an involuntary manslaughter instruction should not be given. Only when one acts wantonly and recklessly and death follows, not intentionally but incidentally, from the acts do we have the crime of involuntary manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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