State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on District of Columbia v. Heller · Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc. · Hodges v. Rainey · USAA Property & Casualty Insurance v. Clegg Ex Rel. Estate of Clegg · State v. Curry
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in another place where he has a right to be, including, but not limited to, his place of business, has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or another person ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott“A person who uses deadly force as permitted by the provisions of this article or another applicable provision of law is justified in using deadly force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of deadly force, unless the person against whom deadly force was used is a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his official duties ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Scott“When [Scott] fired the shot, he reasonably believed he was being attacked with deadly force directed at his home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott
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.