Melchior v. Jago’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 486 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Maupin v. Smith (1986), 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison (1990)
18 federal appellate · 5 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Frady · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order for an initial aggressor to withdraw and regain the right to act in self-defense, he or she must clearly manifest a good faith No. 19AP-816 10 intention to withdraw from the affray and must remove any just apprehension of fear the original victim may possess.”
2 later decisions 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.