State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2019
23 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 391 So. 2d 421 - State v. Gibson · 350 So. 2d 615 - State v. Sheppard · Burley v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · 295 So. 2d 792 - State v. Patterson · State v. Francis
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. Character evidence generally. Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of his character, such as a moral quality, is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: [[Image here]] (2) Character of victim, (a) Except as provided in Article 412, evidence of a pertinent trait of character, such as a moral quality, of the victim of the crime offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the character evidence; provided that in the absence of evidence of a hostile demonstration or an overt act on the part of the victim at the time of the offense charged, evidence of his dangerous character is not admissible[.] [[Image here]] [[Image here]] B. Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. (2) In the absence of evidence of a hostile demonstration or an overt act on the part of the victim at the time of the offense charged, evidence of the victim’s prior threats against the accused or the accused’s state of mind as to the victim’s dangerous character is not admissible[.] [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“The fact that the victim continued to advance on the defendant in a hostile and frightening manner even after the defendant has fired two shots was enough to make the defendant believe that the victim was concealing a weapon. The relevant inquiry is not whether or not the victim actually had a weapon behind her back, but whether or not the defendant could reasonably believe she did. In this case, the defendant could have reasonably believed that she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his [lack of a weapon on the victim's body] was, of course, not dispositive of the issue of self defense, since it is the reasonableness of apprehension, and not the actuality of danger, which determines the question of self defense under R.S. 14:20.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Dill
How this case has been treated — in progress
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