State v. Plumlee’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 470 - People v. Ceballos (1974), State Ex Rel. Dpb (2003)
25 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 Wallace v. United States · Simpson v. State · Crawford v. State · State v. Moore · Bloom 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two things must concur in order to justify us in killing another to prevent him from committing some act; first, it must reasonably appear necessary in order to prevent him from committing a crime; and second, the crime to be prevented must be a great crime, and not a. petty offense from which no great injury would result to us or others, in body or property, Therefore, if it reasonably appears that the crime can be prevented by any other available means, as by a warning, by a show of force, or by the use of any force short of killing, the killing would not be justified.- And if the crime to be prevented was a petty offense, not likely to result in great injury in body or property to us or others, we -would not be justified in killing to prevent it, even if it could not be prevented by any other means.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State Ex Rel. Dpb · State v. Turner““If any point is settled or can be settled, it is that larceny, being a secret crime not attended with force or violence, and especially when the goods taken are of small value, furnishes no warrant to one person for killing another -to prevent its consummation. It has been so held four times in this state in cases involving the stealing of chickens. Bibb v. Hebert, 3 La.Ann. 132 ; Carmouche v. Bouis, 6 La.Ann. 95 , 54 Am.Dec. 558; McCutcheon v. Angelo, 14 La.Ann. 34 ; Gardiner v. Thibodeau, 14 La.Ann. 732 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Turner“[O]ne has no right to take human life directly or indirectly to prevent trespass or any other petty crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State Ex Rel. Dpb
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.