State v. Gallegos’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably People v. Humphrey (1996), State v. Coffin (1999)
53 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Milton v. Wainwright · Lego v. Twomey · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · Krupiak v. Payton · United States v. Stifel
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The subjective perceptions of an individual, brutalized regularly by domestic violence, are especially critical to the determination of whether her actions in purported self-defense were reasonable. Victims of a battering relationship live in a hopeless vacuum of "cumulative terror."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In issues of self-defense, the victim’s character constitutes an element of the defense which properly can be proven by specific instances of conduct. When the trial court precludes defendant from proving an element of her defense, the court abuses its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baca“acted as a reasonable person would have acted in the same circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mann
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.