State v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1961
5 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 New Orleans Co v. Jopes · Pond v. People · Aldrich v. Wright · People v. Glover · People v. Walsh
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As heretofore pointed out, homicide is justifiable under our statutes ‘when committed in defense of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise to commit a felony.’ In this class of cases the authorities are practically unanimous that the slayer need only act upon appearances, and it is sufficient if he acts in good faith and has reasonable grounds to believe, and does believe, that under the circumstances his legal rights are being feloniously invaded and the necessity exists for the force used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner
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.