Carbajol v. Fairman’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 397 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Jackson v. Commissioner of Correction (1993), Nutall v. Greer (1985)
22 federal appellate · 2 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Picard v. Connor · Engle v. Isaac · Washington v. Texas · Gryger v. Burke
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]n the absence of preliminary evidence of self-defense'--that is, evidence 'that would justify a finding that deceased was the aggressor' in the incident that resulted in his death--'specific acts of violence and threats made by the victim should not be admitted.' People v. Carbajol, supra, 67 Ill.App.3d at 241, 23 Ill.Dec. at 921, 384 N.E.2d at 828.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because there is no indication that Illinois courts would ever admit evidence of the victim's past violent acts ... unless, as in People v. Foster, 81 Ill.App.3d 915, 923, 37 Ill.Dec. 128, 134, 401 N.E.2d 1221, 1227 (1980), the victim had made a gesture signaling an imminent attack on the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to second-guess every evidentiary ruling made at the petitioner's trial, at some point an isolated evidentiary ruling might so hamper his defense that it could no longer be said that he had had a fair trial, and then we would have to intervene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.