507 So. 2d 638 - Barton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2018
15 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 Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · State v. Baker · Mahaun v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Taylor v. State, 444 So.2d 931 (Fla. 1983), held that an intent to kill is a prerequisite for conviction of assault with intent to commit manslaughter pursuant to Williams v. State, 41 Fla. 295 , 26 So. 184 (1899). Adopting the Williams rationale, Taylor held that the crime of attempted manslaughter exists in situations where, if death resulted from an act of the defendant, the defendant would be guilty of voluntary ( i.e., intentional) manslaughter at common law. Voluntary manslaughter at common law (as to which there can be an attempt) has been statutorily enacted in Florida as "the killing of a human being by the act (or) procurement ... of another, without lawful justification." § 782.07, Fla. Stat. (1985). The words "act" and "procurement" obviously refer to acts evidencing an intent to kill, as required at common law for voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an ad hoc visceral search for legislative intent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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