State v. McGowan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
December 1992
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Royal · State v. Strickland · State v. Ivicsics · State v. Black · State v. McCall
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of self-defense in a homicide case are the absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the defendant, a real or apparently real necessity to kill to save himself from an immediate danger of serious bodily injury or death, reasonable cause for belief in such necessity, and the defendant’s doing all within his power consistent with personal safety to avoid the danger and the need to take life.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson · State v. Martin
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.