State v. McCaskill’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Lockhart · State v. Davis · Braxton v. Commonwealth · 130 Ill. App. 3d 747 - People v. Brooks · State v. Glover
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] homicide is excused when caused by the discharge of a gun... where the accused is lawfully acting in self-defense and the victim meets death by accident, through the unintentional discharge of a gun or the like ... On the other hand, a homicide is not excusable on the ground of accident or misadventure unless it appears that the act of the slayer was lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burriss“failing to charge that if appellant lawfully armed herself in self-defense because of a threat to her safety created by the decedent, and the gun accidentally discharged, the jury would have to find her not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burriss“the defense of accident is not applicable unless the defendant was acting lawfully , it is necessary to instruct the jury as to what constitutes a lawful enterprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owens
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.