State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mesarosh v. United States · 446 So. 2d 729 - State v. Prudholm
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A homicide which would be murder under either Article 30 (first degree murder) or Article 30.1 (second degree murder), but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self-control and cool reflection. Provocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds that the offender's blood had actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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