People v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Curry v. City of Syracuse (2003), Cameron v. City of New York (2010)
7 federal appellate · 12 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 70 Cal. 2d 347 - People v. Curtis · State v. Mulvihill
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when and to the extent he reasonably believes such to be necessary to defend himself... from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bradley“[T]he crime of resisting arrest does not occur if the arrest is illegal or unlawful”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ivery v. Baldauf
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.