State v. Jeffrey’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. New York · Zafiro v. United States · State v. Bolton · State v. Amaya-Ruiz · 123 Wash. 2d 351 - State v. Riker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though [the defendant] has done the act the crime requires and has the mental state which the crime requires, his conduct which violates the literal language of the criminal law is justified because he has thereby avoided a harm of greater magnitude.”
1 later decision 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.