State v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
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 Kent v. Bechtel Group, Inc. · State v. Davis · State v. Hill · State v. Fuller · State v. Goodson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Bruno] and Mark Ross were drinking at a bar one evening in September 1993. The two left the bar in Ross’s car. Ross testified that as he was driving away from the bar, he tried to pass the car of James Murphy (“Victim”), who was travelling in the same direction. Victim drove aside Ross’s vehicle, began taunting Ross, and pulled in front of him. Ross almost hit the curb in attempting to avoid Victim’s car. Ross and Bruno followed Victim’s car; they eventually saw it parked at a [Starvin’ Marvin] convenience store. At Bruno’s request, Ross pulled over into the convenience store’s parking lot. From the passenger’s side, Bruno looked over at Victim, who was rummaging through the trunk of his car. Bruno yelled to Victim: “Are you — are you James Murphy?” Victim responded, “Who, the hell, wants to know?” From the car, Bruno shot Victim. After the shots were fired, Ross began to drive off, and Bruno pulled his gun back into the car. Bruno’s testimony was that after entering Ross’s vehicle at the bar, he fell asleep and did not awake until the car hit a bump or curb on the side of the road. When he awoke, he asked Ross what had happened. Ross replied that Victim had tried to run them off the road. Just at that moment Bruno saw Victim “getting in his [car] trunk,” and he felt that Victim was coming toward him. Bruno testified “something snapped,” and he shot Victim. Police found Victim shot to death. His body was near his car in the convenience store’s parking lot. The trunk of the c”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bruno v. State“[Appellant] was not entitled to a self-defense charge, because he presented no evidence that he believed he was in imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
How this case has been treated — in progress
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