493 So. 2d 451 - Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 498 So. 2d 929 - State v. Wimberly (1986), 614 So. 2d 473 - Hall v. State (1993)
57 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Marshall v. Walker · 424 So. 2d 758 - Hicks v. State · 336 So. 2d 97 - Advisory Opinion to Gov. Request of July 12, 1976 · Finch and Stokes 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confusing, contradictory, or misleading.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person has no duty to retreat when faced with the wrongful entry to his or her home by another person. In that situation, a person has the right to defend his or her home, property, and himself or herself with a reasonable force including force not likely to cause death or great bodily harm.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. State · Pollock v. State“The instruction on justifiable use of force in one's own home was misleading and contradictory.... [Since] the improper instruction would naturally lead a reasonable jury to conclude that the victim had an abstract right to be armed and use force against the defendant, [t]he instruction improperly shifted the focus of the case from the applicability of the defense of self-defense to the right of the victim to fight force with force. As a result, the confusing and misleading instruction virtually negated the defendant's only defense, that of self-defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. State · Mann 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.