State v. Velsir’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 283 - People v. Brigham (1979), State v. Owen (1953)
31 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 State v. Sorrentino · Hadley v. State · Stacey v. Commonwealth · Mortimore v. State · Haines v. Territory
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established that in order to render admissible evidence of the character or reputation for turbulance or violence of the victim of the homicide, a proper foundation must be laid by some evidence tending to show that the defendant in committing the homicidal act acted in self-defense. * * * The necessary preliminary showing or appearance of a case of self-defense may be adduced either in the evidence given in behalf of the state in its main case or by the defendant in his defense ; the only indispensable prerequisite is that it precede the offered evidence of the decedent’s character.” (Citing cases.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wallace · Edwards 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.