54 Md. App. 113 - Faulkner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Dykes v. State (1990), Burch v. State (1997)
38 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Michigan v. Summers
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perfect self-defense requires not only that the killer subjectively believed that his actions were necessary for his safety but, objectively, that a reasonable man would so consider them. Imperfect self-defense, however, requires no more than a subjective honest belief on the part of the killer that his actions were necessary for his safety, even though, on an objective appraisal by a reasonable man, they would not be found to be so.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From the turbulent waters of the criminal law of Maryland, roiled by the dictates of Mullaney v. Wilbur, [ 421 U.S. 684 , 95 S.Ct. 1881 , 44 L.Ed.2d 508 ], . . . emerged an esoteric qualification to the doctrine of self-defense, known as the ‘imperfect right of self-defense.’ We noticed it in Evans v. State [ 28 Md.App. 640 , 349 A.2d 300 ], .. . recognized it in Shuck v. State, . . . mentioned it in Wentworth v. State, . . . and applied it in Law v. State .. .. ” (Citations omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is difficult to envision circumstances which are sufficient to generate the issue of justification or excuse by way of perfect self-defense which do not also generate the issue of mitigation by way of imperfect self-defense. Generally, if a defendant is entitled to an instruction with respect to the former, he will be entitled to an instruction with respect to the latter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roach v. State · Dykes 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.