State v. Wonder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Section 776.013(3) applies when a person is (1) not engaged in an unlawful activity and (2) attacked in any place outside the “castle” as long as (3) he or she has a right to be there. A person who does not meet these three requirements would look to section 776.012(1) to determine whether the use of deadly force was justified.... The requirements under sections 776.012(1) and 776.013(3) are not identical. A person proceeding under section 776.013(3) would have to prove that he or she reasonably believed the use of deadly force was “necessary ... to prevent death or great bodily harm ... or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.” Under section 776.012(1), a person would have to prove that he or she reasonably believed the use of deadly force was “necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm ... or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hardison v. State

2. “An issue in this case is whether the defendant acted in self-defense. It is a defense to the offense with which Angelo Hardison is charged if the death of Johnny Banks resulted from the justifiable use of deadly force. Deadly force means force likely to cause death or great bodily harm. A •person is justified in using deadly force if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent, one, imminent death or great bodily harm to himself, or, two, the imminent commission of felony battery against himself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hardison v. State