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← 596 NW2D 256 - State v. Nystrom

State v. Nystrom’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Leinweber · State v. Myers · State v. Boyce · State v. Hennum · State v. Buchanan

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.

  1. “1) the absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the defendant; 2) the defendant’s actual and honest belief that he or she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm; 3) the existence of reasonable grounds for that belief; and 4) the absence of a reasonable possibility of retreat to avoid the danger.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “If scientific, technical,- or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “make a preemptive strike and kill any person who caused him ... fear.” Id. at 260 . The defendant sought to introduce the expert testimony to support his claim of self-defense. We reasoned that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.