State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2022
21 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 State v. Dunn · State v. Evans · State v. Litherland · State v. Parish · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disprove the affirmative proposition of self-defense, not just prove guilt, beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]efendant's burden of proof [in asserting an affirmative defense] is quite limited. He need not [even] prove the defense . . . by a mere preponderance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cox · State v. Garcia“[t]rial courts should separately instruct each jury clearly that the State must disprove . . . [an] affirmative defense[] beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.