State v. Dunson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2019
2 federal appellate · 14 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 State v. Jeffries · State v. Clay · 102 Ill. App. 3d 692 - People v. Chatman · State v. Knoll · 135 Cal. App. 3d 442 - People v. Shoemaker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense of justification is not available to the following: [[Image here]] 2. One who initially provokes the use of force against oneself, with the intent to use such force as an excuse to inflict injury on the assailant. 3. One who initially provokes the use of force against oneself by one’s unlawful acts, unless: a. Such force is grossly disproportionate to the provocation, and is so great that the person reasonably believes that the person is in imminent danger of death or serious injury or b. The person withdraws from physical contact with the other and indicates clearly to the other that the person desires to terminate the conflict but the other continues or resumes the use of force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Begey“[a] person is justified in the use of reasonable force when the person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend oneself or another from any imminent use of unlawful force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Begey“the district court has a duty to give a requested instruction on the defense.”
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.