Guerriero v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Tichnell v. State (1980), State v. Faulkner (1984)
45 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 Josey v. United States · Nixon v. State · Baltimore Transit Co. v. Faulkner · Turpin v. State · Stockham v. Malcolm
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A third person, closely related to or associated with one attacked in such a manner that he could properly have defended himself by the use of force, has a right to go to the defense of the person attacked and to use the same degree and character of force that the one attacked could have used.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The accused ... had reasonable grounds to believe himself in apparent imminent or immediate danger of death or serious bodily harm from his assailant or potential assailant; (2) The accused must have in fact believed himself in this danger; (3) The accused claiming the right of self-defense must not have been the aggressor or provoked the conflict; and (4) The force used must not have been unreasonable and excessive, that is, the force must not have been more force than the exigency demanded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The cases differ as to whether, and under what circumstances, one may so defend a brother in danger but we assume, without deciding, that he may, since the State concedes the point.””
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.