State v. Duarte’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Coffin (1999), State v. Lopez (1999)
56 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 Godinez v. Moran · United States v. Todd · State v. Moser · State v. Heisler · State v. Harris
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n instruction on a claim of self defense or defense of another should be given if there is any evidence, even slight evidence, to support the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Mann“The defendant acted in defense of another if: 1. There was an appearance of immediate danger of bodily harm to ________________________ as a result of _______________________; and 2. The defendant believed that ___________________ was in immediate danger of bodily harm from ____________________ and ________________ to prevent the bodily harm; and 3. The defendant used the amount of force that the defendant believed was reasonable and necessary to prevent the bodily harm; and .... 5. The apparent danger to __________________ would have caused a reasonable person in the same circumstances to act as defendant did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mann“evidence that an objectively reasonable person, [placed in] Defendant's subjective situation, would have thought that [his son] was threatened with [harm], and that the use of... force was necessary to prevent the threatened injury.”
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.