State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Prioleau (1995), State v. Lewis (1998)
67 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 Washington v. Texas · State v. Lewis · State v. Miller · State v. Santiago · Carlson v. Plouffe
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order sufficiently to raise self-defense, a defendant must introduce evidence that the defendant reasonably believed his adversary's unlawful violence to be 'imminent' or 'immediate.'... [A] person can, under appropriate circumstances, justifiably exercise repeated deadly force if he reasonably believes both that his attacker is using or is about to use deadly force against him and that deadly force is necessary to repel such attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.