Mederos v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 51 So. 3d 456 - Dennis v. State · Peterson v. State · Smiley v. State · 17 So. 3d 804 - Hair v. State · 506 So. 2d 1056 - Baker 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is justified in using force ... against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roofing v. Flemmings
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.