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894 So. 2d 1240 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
February 2017
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Texas v. Louisiana · 661 So. 2d 442 - State v. Smith · 436 So. 2d 471 - State v. Sutton · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1)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;”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether present or absent, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, aid and abet in its commission, or directly or indirectly counsel or procure another to commit the crime, are principals.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “also actively desired ... great bodily harm to the victim.”
    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.