State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Edwards · 419 So. 2d 858 - State v. Raymo · State v. Lynch · 441 So. 2d 721 - State v. Faulkner
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A homicide is justifiable: (1) when committed in self-defense by one who reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of losing his life or receiving great bodily harm and that the killing is necessary to save himself from the danger[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaines
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.