Mullen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1986
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Banks v. State · Harris v. State · Starkey v. State · 161 Ind. App. 666 - Scruggs v. State · Hanic 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 2. (a) A person is justified in using reasonable force against another person to protect himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in using deadly force only if he reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent serious bodily to himself or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony ... (d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, a person is not justified in using force if: 3. he has entered into combat with another person or is the initial aggressor, unless he withdraws from the encounter and communicates to the other person his intent to do so and the other person - nevertheless - continues - or threatens to continue unlawful action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeze v. State
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.