Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2000
6 state decisions
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 Easley v. State · 401 So. 2d 288 - Myers v. State · Buffalow v. State · 193 So. 2d 741 - McKibben v. City of Jackson · 440 So. 2d 1172 - Oglen v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after the call and she shoved him at some point during the argument. In the present case, Living failed to advance a reasonable theory from the evidence to support a jury instruction on heat-of-passion manslaughter. At trial, Investigator Bobby Smith of the Limestone County district attorney's office testified that he, Sheriff Mike Blakely, and Investigator Brad Pullom interviewed Living after the killings. According to Investigator Smith, Living repeatedly gave the following reason for the shootings:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Living 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.