State v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1998
8 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 State v. Arnett · State v. Cole
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, only a present danger can be a legitimate justification for resort to self-defense, and in prosecutions for assault with intent to murder, or to kill, or to do serious bodily harm it is usually required for self-defense to serve as a justification, that the accused was faced with actual, or at least reasonably apparent, danger of losing his life or suffering serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mares
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.