Mason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2018
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 493 So. 2d 451 - Butler 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he modified instruction was misleading and confusing because it tended to shift the focus away from the issue of whether the defendant was justified in the use of force, and to place emphasis on whether the victim was justified in defending himselfa question which was not at issue in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm is not justifiable if you find: [[Image here]] 2. Desmond Lavan Byrd or the persons he was seeking to defend initially provoked the use of force against himself, or themselves unless: (a) The force asserted toward the defendant or others was so great that he reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger ... and had exhausted every reasonable means to escape the danger. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd 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.