State v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Smith · State v. Cobo · Bozeman v. State · State v. Goodson · 100 Ill. App. 2d 13 - People v. Johnson
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 30 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; (3) a reasonably prudent person of ordinary firmness and courage would have entertained the same belief; and (4)[he] had no other probable means of avoiding the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Slater
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.