Culverson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. United States · State v. Abbott · 63 Cal. 2d 648 - People v. Davis · Johnson v. State · State v. Austin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person who is not the original aggressor has no duty to retreat before using deadly force if a reasonable person in the position of the non-aggressor [sic] would believe that the assailant is about to kill or I guess seize or cause — I think it’s meant to say serious bodily harm — to the nonaggressor or any person in the presence or company of the nonaggressor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Earl v. State“[Wjhere a person without voluntarily seeking, provoking, inviting or willingly engaging in a difficulty of his own free will is attacked by assailant and is [sic] necessary for him to take the life of his attacker and to protect his own, then he need not flee for safety but has a right to stand his grounds and slay his adversary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Earl v. State
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.