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← 615 SO2D 1280 - Caldwell v. State

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.

  1. “'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
  2. “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
  3. “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.