State v. Bezemer’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster (1979), State v. Walker (1998)
33 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 Wilson · State v. Churchill · State v. Eddon · State v. Blaine · State v. Turner
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'great bodily harm’ [means] an injury of a graver and more serious nature than an ordinary battery with the fists or pounding with the hands”). This definition was included in a jury instruction on self-defense. The issue decided by the Bezemer court was whether the trial court erred in failing to give the instruction offered by the defendant. In approving this definition, the court in Bezemer stated that in order to agree with the defendant, it would be”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walden · State v. Walden“conviction may be proved for the purpose of affecting the weight of his testimony ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Assault is justified when committed by a party about to he injured in preventing or attempting to prevent an offense against his person, if the force he used is not more than was necessary. Necessary means no reasonable effective alternative to the use of force appeared to exist and that the amount of force used was reasonable to effect the lawful purpose intended. "The kind and degree of force which a person may use in self-defense is limited to what a reasonably and ordinarily cautious and prudent person in the same situation as the defendant, seeing what he sees and knowing what he knows, would honestly believe to be necessary. One has the right to defend himself, to resist force, or apparent force, with force, to the extent of what appears to be the apparent danger to him at the time. However, when there is no reasonable ground for the person attacked or apparently under attack to believe that his person is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and it appears to him that only an ordinary battery is all that is intended and all that he has reasonable grounds for fear from his assailant, he has a right to stand his ground and repeal such a threatened assault. Yet, he has no right to repel a threatened assault by the use of a deadly weapon in a deadly manner, unless at the time of the alleged or apparent attack upon him he could as a reasonably and ordinarily prudent man, have honestly believed that he was in danger of death or great bodily harm. In deciding whe”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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