State v. Columbus’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2012
21 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Johnson · State v. White · State v. Baker
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) absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the slayer; (2) actual and honest belief of the slayer that he was in imminent danger of some felony and that it was necessary to take the action he did; (3) existence of reasonable grounds for such belief; and (4) duty of the slayer to retreat or avoid the danger if reasonably possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vazquez · State v. Morgan“burden of going forward with evidence to support his claim of self-defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jensen · State v. Peterson“The intentional taking of the life of another is not authorized by section 609.-06, except when necessary in resisting or preventing an offense which the actor reasonably believes exposes the actor or another to great bodily harm or death, or preventing the commission of a felony in the actor’s place of abode.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hennum
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.