Hudgens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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.

1. ““In a few cases the broad rule has been laid down that a man’s house is his castle, and that he may defend it even to the taking of life if necessary, or apparently necessary, to prevent persons from forcibly entering it against his will, and when he warns them not to enter and to desist from the use of force, but the weight of authority is against this extreme view. -The expression, ‘a man’s house is his castle,’ cannot be taken to mean that in any and every case a person may kill another who unlawfully attempts to enter his. habitation. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. State

2. ““When an assault on a dwelling and an attempted forcible entry are made under such circumstances as to create a reasonable apprehension that it is the design of the assailant to commit a felony or to inflict on thé inmates a personal injury which may resnlt in loss of life or great bodily harm, the danger that the design will be carried into execution being imminent and present, the lawful occupant of the dwelling may lawfully prevent the entry, even by the taking of the life of the intruder. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. State

3. ““Where great bodily violence is being inflicted, or threatened, upon a person, by one much stronger and heavier, with such determined energy that the person assaulted may reasonably apprehend death or great bodily injury, he is justifiable in using a deadly weapon upon his assailant. It makes no difference whether the bodily violence is being, or about to be, inflicted with a club, or a rock, or with the fists of an overpowering adversary of superior strength and size.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. State