64 Md. App. 311 - Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2010
16 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 Wilhelm v. State · Lansdowne v. State · Turner v. State · 52 Md. App. 327 - Jackson v. State · Brice 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, appellant failed to establish a theory of manslaughter based on hot-blooded provocation from the very beginning — the requirement that there must have been adequate provocation. Here, the evidence showed that appellant bumped into the victim, the two argued, and then appellant turned and fired h-6 shots from his gun in the direction of the victim. We find that appellant presented no evidence to generate a jury question on the issue of hotblooded provocation. The instruction appellant sought in this regard, therefore, was properly denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““For the ‘Rule of Provocation’ to be invoked there are four requirements: (1) There must have been adequate provocation; (2) The killing must have been in the heat of passion; (3) It must have been a sudden heat of passion — that is, the killing must have followed the provocation before there had been a reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool; (4) There must have been a causal connection between the provocation, the passion, and the fatal act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court may, and at the request of any party shall, instruct the jury as to applicable law and the extent to which the instructions are binding. The court may give its instructions orally or, with the consent of the parties, in writing instead of orally. The court need not grant the requested instruction if the matter is fairly covered by instructions actually given.”
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.