Commonwealth v. LeClair’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 2015
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Kinney v. United States · Dollar v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“well-established rule that evidence of provocation by a third party, rather than the victim of a homicide, is insufficient to warrant a voluntary manslaughter instruction”); State v. Vinso, 171 Mo. 576, 590 , 71 S.W. 1034, 1038 (1903) (rejecting heat of passion argument where victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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