Witty v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Viewing the facts, then, from the standpoint of appellant, it is apparent that no other means were reasonably at hand to protect his wife save and except to shoot. The distance he was away from the parties strongly suggests that he could have resorted to no other means to prevent injury to his wife. The facts raising the issue of defense of the wife against the attack, less than deadly, of the deceased also showed that no other means were reasonably at hand or available to appellant to protect bis wife but to shoot. Consequently, under the provisions of Art. 1224, P.C., appellant was, under the facts pre sented, entitled to have the jury instructed in accordance with his requested charge.””

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

2. “the courts are not concerned with the source, truth, or probative force of that testimony, but are concerned only if there be testimony raising the issue.”

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