State v. Irons’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Thomas (1993), State v. Davis (1994)
28 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 43 Cal. App. 3d 823 - People v. Lovercamp · State v. Quick · 66 Ill. 2d 333 - People v. Unger · In re Gilman · State v. Shehan
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘(1) The prisoner is faced with a specific threat of death, forcible sexual attack or substantial bodily injury in the immediate future; “ ‘(2) There is no time for a complaint to the authorities or there exists a history of futile complaints which makes any result from such complaints illusory; “ ‘(3) There is no time or opportunity to resort to the courts; “ ‘(4) There is no evidence of force or violence used towards prison personnel or other “innocent” persons in the escape; and “ ‘(5) The prisoner immediately reports to the proper authorities when he has attained a position of safety from the immediate threat.’ ” State v. Pichon, 15 Kan. App. 2d at 533 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) A person is not guilty of a crime other than murder or voluntary manslaughter by reason of conduct which he performs under the compulsion or threat of the imminent infliction of death or great bodily harm, if he reasonably believes that death or great bodily harm will be inflicted upon him or upon his spouse, parent, child, brother or sister if he does not perform such conduct. “(2) The defense provided by this section is not available to one who willfully or wantonly places himself in a situation in which it is probable that he will be subjected to compulsion or threat.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`choke[d] off a valid defense in a criminal action'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones
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.