Dennie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2001
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ware v. United States · Coonan v. State · Mitchell v. State · Hare v. State · Grossenbacher v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crime of voluntary manslaughter is defined by statute as follows: A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being while acting under sudden heat commits voluntary manslaughter, a Class B felony. The existence of sudden heat is a mitigating factor that reduces what otherwise would be murder to voluntary manslaughter, To convict the defendant the State must have proved each of the following elements: The defendant 1. Knowingly or intentionally 2, Killed 8. Another human being. If the State failed to prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant not guilty. If the State did prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, and you further find the defendant did the killing while acting under sudden heat, you should find the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter, a Class B felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jewell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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