State v. Matz’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Daniels (2011), State v. Paul Racz (2007)
36 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 Schad v. Arizona · State v. Guillaume · Kills on Top v. State · State v. Hicks · State v. Weldele
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justifiable Use of Force as a Defense The defense of justifiable use of force is an affirmative defense and the defendant has the burden of producing sufficient evidence on the issue to raise a reasonable doubt of her guilt. If the defendant was justified in the use of force, you must find her not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Henson
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.