State v. Bristol’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 52 Md. App. 225 - Medley v. State (1982), Bennett v. State (1963)
35 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 Thompson v. United States · State v. Flory · Long v. State · Karr v. State · State v. Evans
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Njeither the fact of arming himself, nor the fact of going to the restaurant, even if he knew that the [victim] was there, was sufficient to deprive the defendant of the right of self-defense. The criterion is as to what he then did or said when he found the [victim], and whether what he said or did was reasonably calculated to cause the [victim] to be provoked into attacking the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Farrow v. State““It has been held that one may lawfully arm himself in reasonable anticipation of a dangerous attack. * * * To do so may, of course, have a tendency to show the state of mind of the defendant, although it has been held that the mere fact of arming does not justify the inference that this was done for the purpose of attacking the deceased. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“unlawful or wrongful act for the defendant to go there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farrow 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.