Caldwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · Brown v. State · 574 So. 2d 979 - Kitsos 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Negligence is "distinguished from acting purposefully, knowingly, or recklessly in that it does not involve a state of awareness. It is the case where the actor creates inadvertently a risk of which he ought to be aware, considering its nature and degree, the nature and purpose of his conduct and the care that would be exercised by a reasonable person in his situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person commits the crime of criminally negligent homicide if he causes the death of another person by criminal negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person commits the crime of manslaughter if . . . [h]e recklessly causes the death of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.