State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Mulvihill (1970), State v. McCoy (1952)
3 federal appellate · 55 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. Gregory · State v. . Gregory · State v. . Ellerbe · State v. Barrett. · State v. . Dixon
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be entitled to an instruction on self-defense, ... [a] defendant ha[s] to present evidence tending to show (1) he was free from fault in the matter, and (2) it was necessary, or reasonably appeared to be necessary, to kill in order to protect himself from death or great bodily harm.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“One is permitted to fight in self-defense or kill in self-defense when it is necessary for him to do so in order to avoid death or great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clay
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.