State v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Robinson (1981), Sollars v. State (1957)
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 R. I. Recreation Center, Inc. v. Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. · State v. Smith · Nall v. Commonwealth · People v. Merhige · State v. Stucker
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o constitute a defense to a criminal charge, the coercion must be present, imminent, and impending and of such a nature as to induce a well grounded apprehension of death or serious bodily injury if the act is not done. Threat of future injury is not enough. Nor can one who has a reasonable opportunity to avoid doing the act without undue exposure to death or serious bodily injury invoke the doctrine as an excuse.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · State v. Green“[e]specially ... due to the fact that the State was suggesting throughout the trial that defendant was admitted to the hospital in an effort to evade compulsory military service,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State“as a circumstance bearing upon defendant's mental condition at the time of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State
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.