State v. . Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1989
23 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to kill in self-defense or in defense of one’s family or habitation rests upon necessity, real or apparent, and the pertinent decisions are to the effect: “1. That one may kill in defense of himself, or his family, when necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm. [Citing authority.] “2. That one may kill in defense of himself, or his family, when not actually necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm, if he believes it to be necessary and has a reasonable ground for the belief. [Citing authority.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Todd · State v. . Robinson“3. That the reasonableness of this belief or apprehension must be judged by the facts and circumstances as they appeared to the party charged at the time of the killing. S. v. Blackwell , 162 N.C. 672 , 78 S.E. 316 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Robinson
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.