Barree v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2001
8 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 Braudrick v. State · Cerda v. State · Rodriquez v. State · Dominguez 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, even if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Carl T. Lee attempted to cause the death of Alvin Williams, as alleged, but you further believe from the evidence, or you have a reasonable doubt thereof, that, at the time he did so, the defendant reasonably believed that Alvin Williams was using or attempting to use unlawful deadly force against him and that he reasonably believed that the use of force and the degree of force used were immediately necessary to protect himself against Alvin Williams’ use or attempted use of deadly force, and that a reasonable person in the defendant’s situation would not have retreated, you will find the defendant not guilty. However, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that, at the time and place in question, the defendant did not reasonably believe that Alvin Williams was using or attempting to use unlawful deadly force against him, or that the defendant did not reasonably believe that the use of force and the degree of force used were immediately necessary to protect himself against Alvin Williams’ use or attempted use of deadly force, or that a reasonable person in the defendant’s situation would have retreated, you will find against the defendant on this plea of justification. As part of the law of self-defense, you are further instructed that the use of force against another is not justified in response to verbal provocation alone. Therefore, if you believe from the evi”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee 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.