Whitsett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 20 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nor is this conclusion rebutted by the fact that defendant engaged in casual and calm conversation with Mrs. Porter on his way to Fayetteville after being given this additional information by-Mills. In a case somewhat like this one this Court took notice of the fact that ‘suppressed anger is a common accompaniment of passion, the deepest and most powerful emotion * * Drye v. State, 181 Tenn. 637, 646 , 184 S.W.2d 10, 13 . Add to that the fact that unexpectedly he met the debaucher of his wife and the destroyer of his home within an hour after he had received information correctly convincing him of that fact.” Whitsett v. State, 201 Tenn. 317 , 299 S.W.2d 2 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baxter v. State

2. ““It is properly conceded by the Attorney General, Toler v. State, 152 Tenn. 1 , 260 S.W. 134 , that if the defendant had not had any suspicions or information as to his wife’s infidelity prior to the morning of the conversation with young Mills, and had then killed McPhearson within the time in which he did kill him after receiving that information, the unlawful homicide would not have arisen to a degree higher than that of voluntary manslaughter.” 201 Tenn. at 325 , 299 S.W.2d at 6 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Thornton

3. ““We are of opinion that if as a matter of fact the deceased had debauched the wife of plaintiff in error and the plaintiff in error had been apprised of that fact and had become convinced of its truth on the day of the wedding or thereafter, and, Avith reasonable expedition while under the influence of passion and agitation produced by such information, had killed Noe, he would only have been guilty of voluntary manslaughter. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Long v. State