520 So. 2d 778 - State v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2011
7 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Doyle v. Ohio · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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.
“The responsive verdict of manslaughter in this case operated as a compromise between guilty of second degree murder and not guilty. It was unanimously given. The jury may return any legislatively provided responsive verdict, as long as the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of the charged offense. State ex rel., Elaire v. Blackburn, 424 So.2d 246, 249 (La.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 959 , 103 S.Ct. 2432 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1318 (1983). The evidence produced in this caseone shotgun blast at close range to the back of the victim's headwas sufficient to support a conviction of second degree murder. The verdict of manslaughter simply reflected the jury's right to compromise between the verdicts of guilty of second degree murder and not guilty. The responsive verdict statute was designed to afford jurors this choice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carrier
How this case has been treated — in progress
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