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← 425 SO2D 641 - Aiken v. State

Aiken v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2015

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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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 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · 97 So. 2d 277 - Tipton v. State · State v. Lange · People v. Vollmer · 385 So. 2d 1134 - Clemons v. Flagler Hospital, Inc.

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

  1. “"The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification according to the provisions of Chapter 776 and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder, according to the provisions of this chapter, shall be deemed manslaughter and shall constitute a felony of the second degree... ."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 892 So. 2d 1189 - JJW v. State · 777 So. 2d 1073 - Weir v. State
  2. “when committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent, or by accident and misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat, without any dangerous weapon being used and not done in a cruel or unusual manner.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 777 So. 2d 1073 - Weir v. State
  3. “upon a sudden combat, without any dangerous weapon being used and not done in a cruel or unusual manner,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 443 So. 2d 286 - Rodriguez v. State

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.