State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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

1. ““The defendant was justified in using or threatening physical force in self defense, if the following two conditions existed: Number one; a reasonable person in the defendant’s situation would have believed that physical force was immediately necessary to protect against another’s use or attempted use of physical force; and, number two, the defendant used or threatened no more physical force than would have appeared necessary to a reasonable person. However, a person may use deadly physical force in self defense only to protect himself from another’s use of deadly physical force. Self defense justifies the use or threat of physical force only while the apparent danger continues. The right to use physical force in self defense ends when the apparent danger ends. Actual danger is not necessary to justify the use of physical force in self defense. It is enough if a reasonable person in the defendant’s situation would have believed that he was in immediate physical danger.””

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