Reinbold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Wright v. State (1995), Hardin v. State (1993)
52 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 Lawrence v. State · Porth v. Templar · Jones v. State · Whisman v. Fawcett · Whitehead v. Indiana
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not limited to the person or entity actually subjected to the commission of the crime. Reinbold v. State, 555 N.E.2d 463, 470 (Ind. 1990). Rather, a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. State · JPB v. State“The crime of voluntary manslaughter [is] defined by statute as follows: a person who knowingly kills another human being while acting under sudden heat, commits voluntary manslaughter, a class B felony, however, it is a class A felony if it is committed by means of a deadly weapon. The existence of sudden heat is a mitigating fact but it reduces what would otherwise be murder to voluntary manslaughter. To convict the defendant of voluntary manslaughter, the State must’ve proved each of the following elements. The defendant, Gary Sylvester, 1) knowingly; 2) killed; 3) Debra Sylvester; 4) while acting under sudden heat.... The term “sudden heat” means an excited mind. It is a condition that may be created by strong emotions such as anger, rage, sudden resentment or jealousy. It may be strong enough to obscure the reason of an ordinary person and prevent deliberation and [sic] meditation. It can render a person incapable of rational thought. When evidence of sudden heat is introduced, the burden is on the State to negate such evidence beyond a reasonable doubt before the defendant may be convicted of murder. Mere evidence of anger is insufficient sudden heat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sylvester v. State“the option to charge a lesser offense against one who has knowingly or intentionally killed, but whose culpability appears not to warrant prosecution for murder, and it provides an accused the opportunity to escape conviction for what would otherwise be murder upon a showing that he acted in sudden heat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sarwacinski 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.