State v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2007
23 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. Stacy · State v. McDonnell · State v. Truman · State v. Frotten · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it should be noted that the very reasons that require this issue (self-defense) be submitted to the jury also require that the respondent’s motions for the direction of verdicts of not guilty on the issue of murder in the first degree and murder in the second degree be denied. If the evidence did raise a factual issue, as it did, the decision is for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barrett““Sixteen stab wounds in the chest do not necessarily suggest self-defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barrett
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.