Pointer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2014
10 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 Lilly v. State · Rogers v. State · Almodovar v. State · Mills v. State · Solomon 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction in spite of a claim of self-defense will be reversed only if no reasonable person could say that the claim was negated by the prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nantz v. State · Broome v. State“A person is justified in using reasonable force against another person to protect himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in . using deadly force only if he reasonably believes that that force is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury 5 to himself or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broome 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.