Sams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
November 2016
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Zafiro v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘If one has reason to believe that he will be attacked, in a manner which threatens him with bodily injury, he must avoid the attack if it is possible to do so, and the right of self-defense does not arise until he has done everything in his power to prevent its necessity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“AAWA”), D.C. Code § 22-404.01 (2012 Repl.); possession of a firearm during a crime of violence (“PFCV”), D.C. Code § 22-4504 (b) (2012 Repl.); carrying a pistol (”
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.