State v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[d]istinctively, voluntary manslaughter includes an additional element not present in first-degree or second-degree murder-that is, the presence of sudden passion arising from adequate cause.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ayansu · Kulhanek v. State

2. “Specifically, a disqualifying bias or prejudice is one that has an extrajudicial source and results in an opinion oh the'merits on some basis -other than what the judge learned from the judge’s participation in a case. In cases requiring recusal, the common thread is either a fact from which prejudgment of some evidentiary issue in the case by the judge may be inferred or facts indicating the judge considered some evidence properly in the case for an illegitimate purpose.”

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

3. “Because voluntary manslaughter is not a nested lesser included offense of either first- or second-degree murder, Jackson is distinguishable from this case and provides no support to [defendant].”

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