State v. Gresz’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2020
6 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. Olander · State v. Erickstad · State v. Clark · Lovcik v. Ellingson · State v. Genre
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is justified in using force upon another person to defend himself against danger of imminent unlawful bodily injury ... except that: [[Image here]] 2. A person is not justified in using force if: [[Image here]] b. He has entered into a mutual combat with another person or is the initial aggressor unless he is resisting force which is clearly excessive in the circumstances. A person’s use of defensive force after he withdraws from an encounter and indicates to the other person that he has done so is justified if the latter nevertheless continues or menaces unlawful action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Falconer
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.