Wood v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 12 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the general rule that passion resulting from fight or terror may be sufficient to reduce a homicide from murder to manslaughter and such a killing may be closely akin to a killing in self-defense. Kinard v. United States, 68 App.D.C. 250 , 96 F.2d 522 . A homicide may be reduced from murder to manslaughter where the killing was done because the slayer believed that he was in great danger, even if he was not warranted in such belief or where the slayer although acting in self-defense was not himself free from blame. Freeman v. State, 174 Ark. 1035 , 298 S.W. 333 ; 40 C.J.S. Homicide § 42.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. State · 2018 OK CR 30 - MACK v. STATE

2. ““INSTRUCTION NO. 5: The statutes of Oklahoma provide that homicide is murder when perpetrated without authority of law, and with a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any other human being. “INSTRUCTION NO. 6: The statutes of Oklahoma provide that a design to effect death is inferred from the fact of killing, unless the circumstances raise a reasonable doubt whether such design existed. “INSTRUCTION NO. 7: The statutes of Oklahoma provide that a design to effect death sufficient to constitute murder may be formed instantly before committing the act by which it is carried into execution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State