633 So. 2d 773 - State v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2010
13 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Oliveaux · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 486 So. 2d 106 - State v. Lombard · 529 So. 2d 14 - State v. DiLosa
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant inquiry on appeal is whether a rational fact finder, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, could have found, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the homicide was not committed in self-defense. The determination of defendant's culpability focuses on a two-fold inquiry, whether, from the facts presented, defendant could reasonably have believed his life to be in imminent danger, and whether deadly force was necessary to prevent the danger. While there is no unqualified duty to retreat from an altercation, the possibility of escape is a recognized factor in determining whether or not a defendant had a reasonable belief that deadly force was necessary to avoid the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are not elements of the offense of manslaughter; rather, they are mitigatory factors in the nature of a defense which exhibit a degree of culpability less than that present when the homicide is committed without them. State v. Thorne, supra. When the preponderance of the evidence shows that a homicide was committed in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]econd degree murder is the killing of a human being [w]hen the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”
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.