State v. Guyton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2002
2 federal appellate · 19 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 State v. Shawley · Eickmann v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · State v. Anderson · State v. Mitchell · State v. Maxie
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“INSTRUCTION NO. 10 If you do not find the defendant guilty of capital murder or murder in the second degree, then you must consider whether he is guilty of manslaughter. A person is responsible for his own conduct and he is also responsible for the conduct of other persons in committing an offense if he acts with them with the common purpose of committing that offense, or if for the purpose of committing that offense, he aids or encourages the other persons in committing it. If you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that between Friday, August 31, 1984, and Sunday, September 2, 1984, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, the defendant and/or Verna Jones and/or Craig Jones caused the death of Virginia O’Brien by struggling with her and placing her in a bathtub filled with water, then you are instructed that the offense of manslaughter has occurred, and if you further find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: Second, that with the purpose of promoting or furthering the commission of manslaughter, the defendant acted together with Verna Jones and/or Craig Jones in committing that offense, then you will find the defendant guilty of manslaughter. However, if you do not find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt each and all of the propositions submitted in this instruction, you must find the defendant not guilty of that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson“[T]he defendant’s liability for manslaughter is not dependent upon her intent to promote the commission of manslaughter. Her liability stems from her intent to aid and abet the assault out of which the manslaughter arose.... If the defendant aids the actor in an assault, with the intent to promote that offense, and the actor unintentionally kills the victim, then the defendant is liable for manslaughter as an aider and participant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. State“Manslaughter is a residuary homicide offense; an unintentional killing of another which did not occur in the commission of a dangerous felony. Thus, if an actor assaults another with the intent to kill and death results he is liable for second degree murder; but if he assaults another without the intent to kill and death results, then he is liable for manslaughter. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rideau
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.