Castillo v. People’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hagos v. People · People v. Garcia · Tate v. People · Klinger v. Adams County School District No. 50 · Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Bill Boom Inc.
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.
“beyond a reasonable doubt at least one of the two conditions of the defense: (1) that the defendant used physical force in order to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believed to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by another person; or (2) that the defendant used a degree of force which he reasonably believed to be necessary for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an exception to self-defense applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.