King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2015
16 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 Hall v. Cole · Irish Northern Aid Committee v. Attorney General of the United States · 82 Ill. 2d 546 - People v. Lockett · 361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State · 48 Ala. App. 401 - Payne 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule is that 'every accused is entitled to have charges given, which would not be misleading, which correctly state the law of his case, and which are supported by any evidence, however weak, insufficient, or doubtful in credibility.' Chavers v. State , 361 So.2d 1106 , 1107 (Ala. 1978). If there is 'any evidence, however slight, tending to support' that the defendant acted in self-defense, the issue should be submitted to the jury. King v. State , 71 Ala. 1 , 4 (1881). In most cases, the issue of self-defense is one of ultimate fact solely for determination by the jury, Domingus v. State , 94 Ala. 9 , 11 So. 190 (1892), however 'unsatisfactory and inconclusive to the judicial mind' the evidence of self-defense may appear. Burns v. State , 229 Ala. 68 , 70 , 155 So. 561 , 562 (1934)."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The question is not merely what the defendant believed, but also, what did he have the right to believe.' Alabama Code 1975, §§ 13A-3-23 Commentary. . . . .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · State v. Neel“"In determining whether to charge the jury on self-defense, '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 for the jury.' Byrd v. State , 257 Ala. 100 , 104 , 57 So.2d 388 , 391 (1952).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Diggs 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.