Marriott v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 43 - Bertero v. National General Corp. (1974), Coy v. Superior Court (1962)
69 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Sloan v. Edwards · Corcoran v. Harran · Fenelon v. Butts · Draper v. Baker · Everroad v. Gabbert
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the burden of proof to establish the self-defense remains with the defendant. There is no presumption that a bodily injury is justifiable and the justification must be proven by him who asserts it. The instructions of the court embodying these propositions were properly given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Meiers
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.