556 So. 2d 1163 - Schuck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1992
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State · 523 So. 2d 1199 - Kingery v. State · Smith v. State · 534 So. 2d 825 - Treadway v. State · Hernandez v. Metropolitan Dade County
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The killing of a human being is excusable, and therefore lawful, when committed by accident and misfortune in the doing of any lawful act by lawful means with usual, ordinary caution and without any unlawful intent, or by accident or misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden provocation, or upon a sudden combat, without any dangerous weapon being used and not done in a cruel or unusual manner, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rushing v. State“[i]t is well settled that giving a misleading jury instruction constitutes both fundamental and reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schuck
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.