State v. Burks’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Chambers · State v. Creighton · State v. Westfall · State v. Avery · State v. Redmond
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the defender, (2) a real or apparently real necessity for the defender to kill in order to save himself from an immediate danger of serious bodily injury or death, (3) a reasonable cause for the defender’s belief in such necessity, and (4) an attempt by the defender to do all within his power consistent with his personal safety to avoid the danger and the need to take a life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiley“[a]t no time did [defendant] testify he was aware of certain and imminent serious bodily injury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bruner
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.