Thiel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on United States v. Bailey · United States v. Kirby · 43 Cal. App. 3d 823 - People v. Lovercamp · 265 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Stanley · Mitchell 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conduct is justified if: (1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; (2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and (3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Spares 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.