People v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2009
9 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 People v. Bennett · People Ex Rel. City of Arvada v. Nissen · People v. Jones · Young v. People · Nora v. People
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.
“It is an affirmative defense to the crime of ... Manslaughter ... that the defendant used deadly physical force because 1. she reasonably believed a lesser degree of force was inadequate, and 2. • had reasonable grounds to believe, and did believe, that she was in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hare · Hare v. People
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.