State v. Rutter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2015
18 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 State v. Childers · State v. Gregory · State v. Lumbrera · State v. Hill · State v. Seelke
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a criminal action, a trial court must instruct the jury on the law applicable to the theories of all parties where there is supporting evidence. The defendant is entitled to an instruction on his or her theory of the case even though the evidence is slight and supported only by defendant's own testimony. However, the trial court's duty to instruct arises only when there is sufficient supporting evidence from which a rational factfinder could find that the events occurred consistent with the defendant's theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““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 necessaiy 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. State v. Hernandez
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.