State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Wiggins (1998), State v. Starnes (2000)
35 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 State v. Williams · State v. Davis · State v. Gourdine · State v. Todd · Bozeman 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he was without fault in bringing on the difficulty; (2) he actually believed he was in imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury; and (3) a reasonably prudent person of ordinary firmness and courage would have entertained the same belief. 2”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“While self-defense can be inferred even from the State's version of the evidence, the evidence of self-defense is not conclusive. Whether [the] appellant actually believed he was in imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury and whether an ordinary person would have entertained the same belief were questions for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oates
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.