State v. Sedig’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1975
22 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 Gardner v. State · State v. Wilson · Smith v. Pine · State v. Boston · State v. Baird
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The defendant must not be the aggressor in provoking the difficulty that results in the killing, or continuing the difficulty that results in the killing. “2. He must retreat as far as he reasonably and safely can before taking his adversary’s life. “3. He must actually and honestly believe either that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and that the action he takes is necessary to save himself. This danger need not be real, but only thought to be real in the defendant’s mind, acting as a reasonable and prudent person under the circumstances. “4. He must have reasonable grounds for such belief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker · State v. Emery
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.