State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
June 1993
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · State v. Richardson · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter is: “(1) A homicide which would be murder under either Article 30 (first degree murder) or Article 30.1 (second degree murder), but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self control and cool reflection. Provocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds that the offender’s blood had actually cooled, or that an average person’s blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed; or ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dockens
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.