161 So. 2d 864 - Darty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 533 So. 2d 270 - Swafford v. State (1988), Yost v. State (1971)
36 state decisions
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 Parrish v. State · Mardorff v. State · Hulst v. State · Ramsey v. State · Hall v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order to justify a homicide on the ground of self-defense the situation must be such as to induce a reasonably prudent person to believe that danger was imminent and that there was a real necessity for the taking of life. O'Steen v. State, 1927, 92 Fla. 1062 , 111 So. 725 . When threats are considered in relation to the defense that the accused killed in self-protection, there must be evidence of an overt act which would induces a reasonable belief that the threatened person will lose his life or sustain serious bodily injury unless he immediately takes the life of his adversary. State v. Coles, Fla. 1956, 91 So.2d 200 . The law disparages the kind of `self-defense' which would subject human life to `the mercy or cowardice or capricious impulse of one whose easily awakened fear prompts him, who is armed with a deadly weapon, to strike upon what at best may be called a hostile demonstration on his victim's part.' Collins v. State, 1925, 88 Fla. 578 , 102 So. 880, 881 ." Darty v. State, 161 So.2d 864, 872-73 (Fla.2d DCA 1964). (emphasis added).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * [A] judgment will not be reversed for failure to give a particular charge where, on the whole, the charges as given are clear, comprehensive and correct.” Darty v. State, Fla.App. 1964, 161 So.2d 864, 872 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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