People v. Strock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"(1) ... [C]onduct which would otherwise constitute an offense is justifiable and not criminal when it is necessary as an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a situation occasioned or developed through no conduct of the actor, and which is of sufficient gravity that, according to ordinary standards of intelligence and morality, the desirability and urgency of avoiding the injury clearly outweigh the desirability of avoiding the injury sought to be prevented by the statute defining the offense in issue.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Brandyberry · People v. Carbajal

2. “[w] hen evidence relating to the defense of justification under this section is offered by the defendant, before it is submitted for the consideration of the jury, the court shall first rule as a matter of law whether the claimed facts and cireum-stances would, if established, constitute a justification”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Al-Yousif

3. “Before the choice of evils defense may be invoked, it must first be shown that the defendant's conduct was necessitated by a specific and imminent threat of injury to his person under cireumstances which left him no reasonable and viable alternative other than violation of the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Carbajal