State v. Sandoval’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Evidence has been presented that [Defendant] killed [Ramos or McCormick] in self defense. 1. The killing is in self defense if: 2. There was an appearance of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to [Defendant] as a result of his confrontation with Ross Ramos and James Arbizu; and 3. [Defendant] was in fact put in fear by the apparent danger of immediate death or great bodily harm and killed [Ramos or McCormick] because of that fear; and 4. A reasonable person in the same circumstances as [Defendant] would have acted as [Defendant] did. The burden is on the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that [Defendant] did not act in self defense. If you have a reasonable doubt as to whether [Defendant] acted in self defense you must find [Defendant] not guilty.”

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