State v. Mannon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The evidence that defendant intentionally shot the deceased is sufficient evidence to warrant, but not compel, a finding by the jury that the defendant intended to kill or intended to do serious bodily harm to the deceased. The evidence of intoxication does not foreclose those findings but is to be considered by the jury in deciding whether appellant did intend to kill or intend to do serious bodily harm to the deceased.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ritter

2. ““All other kinds of murder at common law, not herein declared to be manslaughter or justifiable or excusable homicide, shall be deemed murder in the second degree.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McKinzie

3. “a person can be found guilty of second-degree murder under the felony murder rule if the homicide occurs in the furtherance of a felony....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. O'DELL