455 So. 2d 967 - Raines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2014
19 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 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · Byrd v. State · Watkins v. State · Consford v. State · Dupree 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'The rule of self-defense is that persons may and must act on the reasonable appearance of things. While it is not required that where a person is menaced he must wait until a weapon is presented ready for deadly execution, yet the danger must be real or so manifestly apparent as to create a reasonable belief of presently impending peril to life or limb. In determining this question evidence most favorable to the defendant should be considered and if there is the slightest evidence tending to prove a hostile demonstration which can be reasonably interpreted as placing the accused, at the time of the killing, in apparent imminent danger to life or other grievous bodily harm then the matter of self-defense becomes a question of fact for the jury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'No one has a right to kill another simply because he has made threats against him. . . . ". . . . " 'There must be some demonstration, or apparent demonstration, of an intent, coupled with ability, to take life or inflict grievous bodily harm, before extreme measures become defensive, and can be resorted *Page 358 to.' Karr v. State , 100 Ala. 4 , 14 So. 851 , 852 (1894).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court should not instruct on self-defense when there is no evidence to sustain the plea . . . or when the defendant's evidence showed that he did not act in self-defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kilgore v. State · Owen 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.