Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2022
4 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 State v. Marley · Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage · Wells v. State · Nelson v. State · Gerlach 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“third element of the necessity defense-the proportionality of the harm done compared to the harm avoided-is a question of law to be decided by the judge. The judge must make "an objective determination ... as to whether the defendant's value judgment was correct, given the facts as [the defendant] reasonably perceived them." [33]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garrison“[an objective determination must be made as whether the defendant's value judgment was correct, given the facts as he reasonably perceived them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McGee v. State“reasonably believed at the time of acting that the first and second elements were present, even if that belief was mistaken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McGee 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.