SUPRENANT v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cardwell v. State · Stevens v. State · Wilson v. State · Ford v. State · Reid 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person who knowingly or intentionally (1) kills another human being ... while acting under sudden heat commits voluntary manslaughter, a Class B felony. However, the offense is a Class A felony if it is committed by means of a deadly weapon.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sudden heat is characterized as anger, rage, resentment, or terror sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary person, preventing deliberation and premeditation, excluding malice, and rendering a person incapable of cool reflection. Anger alone is not sufficient to support an instruction on sudden heat. Nor will words alone constitute sufficient provocation to warrant a jury instruction on voluntary manslaughter, and this is especially true when the words at issue are not intentionally designed to provoke the defendant, such as fighting words. In addition to the requirement of something more than mere words, the provocation must be sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary man, an objective as opposed to subjective standard. Finally, Voluntary Manslaughter involves an impetus to kill which arises suddenly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[29] Alternatively, Whitt argues that even if the killing was knowing or intentional, it was done in sudden heat and therefore he should have been convicted of only voluntary manslaughter. A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being while acting under sudden heat commits voluntary manslaughter, a Level 2 felony. Ind. Code § 35-42-1-3 . The existence of sudden heat is a mitigating factor that reduces what otherwise would be murder to voluntary manslaughter. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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