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1989

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2015

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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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 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · 479 So. 2d 114 - METROPOLITAN PROPERTY v. Chicago Ins. Co. · Buenoano v. State · 97 So. 2d 277 - Tipton v. State · Daniels v. Lake Pleasant Land Co.

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

  1. “a closer relationship between the result effected and that intended or hazarded is required.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hawkins v. State · 859 So. 2d 1282 - Byers v. Ritz
  2. “Criminal responsibility for manslaughter should be determined by considering the act that resulted in the death from all of the surrounding circumstances, and not from considering the result alone.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 661 So. 2d 107 - Hodges v. State · 688 So. 2d 338 - Davison v. State
  3. “The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification according to the provisions of chapter 776 and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder, according to the provisions of this chapter, is manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Tyus v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.