Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Tichnell v. State (1980), 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975)
132 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 Chisley v. State · Davis v. State · Webb v. State · Proctor Electric Co. v. Zink · Jones v. State
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Ordinarily a person who is attacked is required to retreat if the means of doing so are within his power and consistent with his safety. If he fails to retreat or withdraw when he could safely do so, then the killing is not excusable. On the other hand, if the peril is imminent and he cannot safely retreat, he need not do so, but may stand his ground and defend himself.” (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`it is incumbent upon the court ... to give an instruction on every essential question or point of law supported by the evidence.'”
3 later decisions 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.