601 So. 2d 403 - Knight v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2014
19 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 571 So. 2d 961 - Anderson v. State · State v. Goff · 37 Ala. App. 416 - Isom v. State · Huber v. City of Casper · 10 Or. App. 297 - State v. Burris
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a person reasonably believes that he is in danger of physical harm he may be excused for some conduct which ordinarily would be criminal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State · Smith v. State“[t]his statement, when offered for its effect on Knight, is not offered `to prove the truth of the matter asserted.' Rather it is offered for the fact that it was said. It does not fit the definition of hearsay.”
2 later decisions 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.