Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · District of Columbia v. Heller · McDonald v. City of Chicago · 7 Cal. 4th 768 - People v. Christian S. · Clark v. Arizona
Most-quoted passages
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“[V]oluntary manslaughter is not, precisely, a killing without malice aforethought but rather a killing 'with a state of mind which, but for the presence of legally recognized mitigating circumstances, would render the killing murder.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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