State v. Millett’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Mullaney v. Wilbur (1975), State v. Melchior (1978)
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Commonwealth v. Johnston · Commonwealth v. Roundtree · State v. Park · 56 Ill. App. 2d 159 - People v. Williams · Roberson 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court must ... determine whether or not [the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant,] is adequate to raise the self-defense issue and, if believed, would under the legal tests applied to a claim of self-defense permit a reasonable doubt as to guilt[.]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““A lawyer might work out a construction to reconcile and harmonize that positive direction with the concluding sentence and the presumption of innocence to which defendant is entitled, but it is not likely a jury of laymen could do so. To say the best of it, the instruction was likely to be misunderstood by, and to mislead, the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The law of self-defense is designed to afford protection to one who is beset by an aggressor and confronted by a necessity not of his own making.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bangs v. State · Loesche 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.