669 So. 2d 85 - Tait v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001), 708 So. 2d 18 - Underwood v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 53 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · 549 So. 2d 1316 - Gray v. State · 278 So. 2d 384 - Glass 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter. Passion or anger suddenly aroused at the time by some immediate and reasonable provocation, by words or acts of one at the time. The term includes an emotional state of mind characterized by anger, rage, hatred, furious resentment or terror.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nolan v. State · Fair v. State“"a reckless and eminently dangerous act directed towards a single individual" would seem to include the defendant's act of pointing a gun at the victim and pulling the trigger. However, when looking at cases which have discussed depraved heart murder, the closest factually is Blanks v. State, supra . Even though the defendant in Blanks was convicted of manslaughter, this Court said it was proper for the jury to be instructed as to depraved heart murder because the defendant's conduct following the shooting when he moved and dumped the body and his initial statements in which he denied the killing were not consistent with an accidental killing. Blanks, 547 So.2d at 34. The present case is distinguishable from Blanks because Tait's conduct of falling to the ground and crying following the shooting could be considered as consistent with an accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“depicts a view of the victim and a partial view of the foyer area[;]” Exhibit S-l2 "is a close-up view of the victim’s wound to his head[;]” Exhibit S-l 3 "is another view of the back of the victim’s head, just at a different angle[;]” and Exhibit S-14 "is a side-view of the right side of the victim, and it depicts him as he was when I arrived at the scene.” . Section 97 — 3—19(1 )(a) provides, in pertinent part, that "[tjhe killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be murder in the following cases: (a) When done with deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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