956 So. 2d 758 - State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
225
cited by 225 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
223 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Dorthey · Hudson v. Louisiana · Kliewer v. New Jersey · 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Second degree murder is the killing of a human being: (1) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm[.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burns · State v. Horn“A. Second degree murder is the killing of a human being: (1) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm;' or (2) When the offender is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated rape, forcible rape, aggravated arson, aggravated burglary, aggravated kidnapping, second degree kidnapping, aggravated escape, assault by drive-by shooting, armed robbery, first degree robbery, second degree robbery, simple robbery, cruelty to juveniles, second degree cruelty to juveniles, or terrorism, even though he has no intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm. * * * B. Whoever commits the crime of second degree murder shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor -without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Little · State v. Small“(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. Provocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds that the offender's blood has actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelly · State v. Horn
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