State v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Walton (1993), State v. Schoonover (2006)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 79 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Solem v. Helm · Ker v. State of California · Harmelin v. Michigan · Sabbath v. United States
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first prong is subjective and requires a showing that the defendant sincerely and honestly believed it necessary to kill to defend himself. The second prong is an objective standard and requires a showing that a reasonable person in the defendant’s circumstances would have perceived self-defense as necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Meeks“A person is justified in the use of force against an aggressor when and to the extent it appears to him and he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or another against such aggressor’s imminent use of unlawful force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Meeks“[a]ll necessary and reasonable force may be used to effect an entry into any building or property or part thereof to execute a search warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McCloud
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.