State v. Slaughter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The use of force upon or toward the person of another is lawful when used by a person who reasonably believes that he is about to be injured in preventing or attempting to prevent an offense against the person and when the force is not more than is necessary. The person using the force may employ such force and means as a reasonably prudent person would use under the same or similar conditions as they appeared to the person, taking into consideration all of the facts and circumstances known to the person at the time of the incident.”

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

2. “over a crack pipe, and at some point, Rosborough came at him with a knife. Slaughter claimed Rosborough was stabbed somehow during the struggle and that he was not even aware that Rosborough had been stabbed at the time. But he did admit telling House that he thought he might have”

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

3. “as if someone had been hit or hurt, then fell. She then ran back to her car, and Slaughter came out to her car. Slaughter was holding a knife with blood dripping from it, and his clothes were bloodied. Slaughter then told House to leave quickly, that”

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