State v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Chambers (1995), Chambers v. Armontrout (1990)
12 federal appellate · 60 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. Thomas · State v. Ivicsics · State v. Bartlett · State v. Rash · State v. Jackson
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the defender, (2) a real or apparently real necessity for the defender to kill in order to save himself from an immediate danger of serious bodily injury or death, (3) a reasonable cause for the defender’s belief in such necessity, and (4) an attempt by the defender to do all within his power consistent with his personal safety to avoid the danger and the need to take a life.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the evidence of self-defense is not so unequivocal as to mandate a directed verdict of acquittal, the evidence is sufficient to justify submission of self-defense to the jury.”). Assuming, however, that Jones’ testimony is not likely to be outcome determinative, we would still find sufficient prejudice under the Constitution. In adopting the prejudice prong of Strickland, the Supreme Court stated that it believes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In resisting an assault a person is not required to determine with absolute certainty ... the amount of force necessary for that purpose.... The law does exact of him however that he shall not use any more force than shall reasonably appear to him in the circumstances to be necessary [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Albanese
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.