State v. Tribble’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably State v. Hallenbeck (2005), Commonwealth v. Fontes (1986)
26 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 Rust v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Amos · United States v. Burks · Clark v. Virginia · State v. Miranda
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] defendant who asserts the defense of self-defense is * * * entitled to adduce relevant evidence of specific acts of violence perpetrated by the victim against third parties, provided however, that the defendant was aware of these acts at the time of his encounter with the victim.” Id. at 1085 (emphasis added). 10”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotty · State v. Dellay““Now, in this case, the defendant has raised self-defense. The law of self-defense holds that a person may defend himself whenever he reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of bodily harm at the hands of another. A person harboring such fear need not wait for the other person to strike first, however, such a person must use only force reasonably necessary for his own protection. A person in a household when he is confronted by what he feels is harm to himself. He must first retreat before he uses deadly force. He may not use any force that exceeds the force that he perceives to be upon him. He can not [sic ] be excused for the crime if his force is greater than the force that was used upon him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ventre““The defendant should not be authorized to introduce an entire criminal record which may include convictions for petty matters. “ ‘Admission of an entire criminal record is, truly, an effort to disparage the victim’s general character and is not probative of the defendant’s apprehensive state of mind. We, therefore, are careful to note that while specific convictions for violent acts may be admissible, provided the defendant had knowledge of same, general proof of the victim’s criminal disposition is not.’ ” Tribble, 428 A.2d at 1086 n. 11 (quoting People v. Miller, 39 N.Y.2d 543 , 384 N.Y.S.2d 741 , 349 N.E.2d 841, 848 (1976)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hallenbeck
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.