Varner v. Stovall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining provocation under Michigan law to be an action that causes defendant to act out of passion rather than reason and that would cause a reasonable person to lose control
• defining provocation under Michigan law to be action that causes \defendant to act out of passion rather than reason\ and that would cause \reasonable person to lose control\ (quotation omitted)
• discussing origins and development of penitent privilege without suggesting a constitutional basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).