State v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2022
8 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 Christie v. State · United States v. Schoon · Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage · Wells v. State · Paul 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on the necessity defense if [she] presents `some evidence' in support of that defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Some evidence' is evidence that, viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant, would allow a reasonable juror to find in the defendant's favor on each element of the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greenwood v. State“evidence that could permit a reasonable jury to find that any of the alleged harms she avoided outweighed the very real dangers she risked by driving drunk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greenwood v. State
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.