439 So. 2d 199 - Quates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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. “A claim of self-defense does not reduce a charge of murder or manslaughter to criminally negligent homicide.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 523 So. 2d 518 - Jones v. State · 521 So. 2d 1346 - Lovell v. State

2. “"A person acts with criminal negligence with respect to a result or to a circumstance which is defined by statute as an offense when he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. . . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 876 - Hill v. State

3. “The 'imperfect defense' doctrine which provided that a person committed the offense of criminally negligent homicide if he intentionally or recklessly caused the death of another person in the good faith but unreasonable belief that he had grounds for justification [self-defense] has been rejected by the Alabama legislature.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 521 So. 2d 1346 - Lovell v. State