State v. Pride’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2006
7 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. Hudson · Bailey v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 308 - Fox v. State · State v. Gilbert · Reaves 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Tennessee, [t]o convict of second degree murder, the state must prove that the accused unlawfully and willfully killed another and that the killing was malicious. Our law recognized that if a person, “upon a sudden impulse of passion, without adequate provocation .., kills another willfully and maliciously,” the killing constitutes second degree murder. Moreover, the element of malice may be sufficiently shown by the use of a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slate v. Carlton
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.