Tarvestad v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Chapel v. State (1998), Klinect v. State (1998)
89 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 Booker v. State · Hayes v. State · Johnson v. State · Pippins v. State · Tarvestad v. State
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.
“[t]he trial court must charge the jury on the defendant's sole defense, even without a written request, if there is some evidence to support the charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“jury could have found that his decision to seek medical help for his wife and their soon-to-be-born child stands on “the same footing of reason and justice” as a government employee’s reasonable fulfillment of his duties, a parent’s reasonable discipline of a child, and a person’s reasonable conduct in performing a citizen’s arrest. See OCGA § 16-3-20 (2), (3), and (4). Having presented some evidence on his sole defense, he was entitled to the jury instruction that *he orally requested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(i)n all other instances which stand upon the same footing of reason and justice as those enumerated in this article (Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 16).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.