State v. Parish’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. Barber (2004)
2 district · 159 state decisions
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 Patterson v. New York · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Francis v. Franklin · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Wilson
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. For use in nonhomicide cases when the self defense theory is based upon: necessary defense of self against any unlawful action; reasonable grounds to believe a design exists to commit a felony; or reasonable grounds to believe a design exists to do some great bodily harm. If this instruction is given, add to the essential elements instruction for the offense charged, “The defendant did not act in self defense”.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Acosta · State v. Griffin“a reasonable juror would have been confused or misdirected”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f a an instruction is facially erroneous it presents an incurable problem and mandates reversal. On the other hand, if a jury instruction is capable of more than one interpretation, then the court must next evaluate whether another part of the jury instructions satisfactorily cures the ambiguity. Finally, if the jury is given two contradictory instructions, each of which is complete and unambiguous, reversible error occurs because it is impossible to tell if the error is cured by the correct instruction; furthermore, there is no way to determine whether the jury followed the correct or incorrect instruction. The standard against which the court makes its determination [as to ambiguity] is that of a reasonable juror. Reversible error arises if, under the principles just described, a reasonable juror would have been confused or misdirected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.