23 Utah 2d 70 - State v. Castillo’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Wood (1982), State v. McCumber (1980)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 State v. Heisler · State v. Mosley · State v. Romero · 141 Cal. App. 2d 193 - People v. Cummings · State v. Johnson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. if all reasonable men must conclude that the evidence is so slight as to be incapable of raising a reasonable doubt in the jury’s mind as to whether a defendant accused of a crime acted in self-defense, tendered instructions thereon are properly refused. 3”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“That the defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on his theory of the case if there is any substantial evidence to justify giving such an instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the general principle that if a person acting in necessary self-defense unintentionally injures a third person, he is not guilty of assault and battery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Betts
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.