State v. Price’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. “Sudden passion arising from adequate cause is a special negative defense to conventional second-degree murder. It is an element of the crime and when properly introduced, it requires a finding by the jury that the defendant did not commit the murder under the influence of sudden passion to find the defendant guilty of second degree murder. Once a defendant has properly injected the issue of sudden passion, the state bears the burden of disproving it beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant is entitled to have the jury consider voluntary manslaughter instead of second-degree murder when the defense introduces adequate evidence of the special negative defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Denson v. State

2. “directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the victim... which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henry Tatum v. Dave Dormire

3. “[k]nowingly causes the death of another person or, with the purpose of causing serious physical injury to another person, causes the death of another person”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henry Tatum v. Dave Dormire