Danford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Steinhorst v. State (1982), Lindberg v. State (1938)
32 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 Allen v. United States · Jenkins v. State · People v. Ah Len · Newton v. State · Long 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] man violently assaulted in his own house, or on his premises near his house, is not obliged to retreat, but may stand his ground and use such force as may appear to him as a cautious and prudent man to be necessary to save his life or to save himself from great bodily harm. (citation omitted)... . The doctrine that a man assaulted on his own premises is under no duty to retreat, but may stand his ground and resist the assault with whatever force may be necessary, even to the taking of life, has its origin in the common-law theory that a man's house was his castle. (citation omitted). This doctrine has been by some courts extended to the premises immediately adjoining the dwelling house, and other buildings, such as an office or place of business.”
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.