Stanley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is error to charge on the issue of provoking the difficulty when the testimony does not raise that issue because it puts the defendant in the wrong ...”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State · Williamson v. State

2. “In this case there is no evidence that the appellant made any motion, spoke any words, or performed any act at the time which caused the deceased to first attack the appellant thereby furnishing the appellant with a pretext for killing the deceased. The evidence shows that the deceased's attack on the appellant was unprovoked.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State

3. “1. Self-defense is an issue; 2. There are facts in evidence which show that the deceased made the first attack on the defendant; and 3. The defendant did some act or used some words intended to and calculated to bring on the difficulty in order to have a pretext for inflicting injury upon the deceased.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. State