407 So. 2d 203 - Falco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2018
22 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 Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction of Orange Cty. · Cline v. Frink Dairy Co. · 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby · 12 Cal. 3d 470 - People v. Ceballos · 376 So. 2d 382 - Brown 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person's dwelling house is a castle of defense for himself and his family, and an assault on it with intent to injure him or any lawful inmate of it may justify the use of force as protection, and even deadly force if there exist reasonable and factual grounds to believe that unless so used, a felony would be committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 776.012 ..., entitled "Use of force in defense of person", and regarding use of deadly force provides in pertinent part: However, he is justified in the use of deadly force only if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] homeowner is not entitled to use deadly force to protect his person or dwelling in all instances. A homeowner may use deadly force to protect himself or his dwelling only if there exists a reasonable belief that such force is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.