72 Ohio App. 3d 468 - State v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably State v. Petway (2020), State v. Belanger (2010)
30 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. Dehass · Martin v. Ohio · State v. Thomas · State v. Robbins · State v. Ferguson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish self-defense, the defendant must prove: (A) the defendant was not at fault in creating the situation giving rise to [the event]; and (B) the defendant had reasonable grounds to believe and an honest belief, even though mistaken, that he/she was in (imminent) (immediate) danger of bodily harm and that his/her only means to protect himself/herself from such danger was by the use of force not likely to cause death or great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to establish self-defense involving non-deadly force, a defendant must prove: '(1) he was not at fault in creating the situation that gave rise to the affray, No. 17AP-438 9 (2) he had both reasonable grounds to believe and an honest belief, even if mistaken, that he was in imminent danger of bodily harm, and (3) the only means of protection from that danger was the use of force not likely to cause death or great bodily harm.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis“(1) that the defendant was not at fault in creating the situation giving rise to the affray; (2) that the defendant had a bona fide belief that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that his only means of escape from such danger was in the use of such force; and (3) that the defendant did not violate any duty to retreat or avoid the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.