729 So. 2d 44 - State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 state decisions

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The determination of a defendant's culpability rests on a two-fold test: (1) whether, given the facts presented, the defendant could reasonably have believed his life to be in imminent danger, and (2) whether deadly force was necessary to prevent the danger.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 862 So. 2d 208 - State v. Favorite · 764 So. 2d 164 - State v. Lewis

2. “(1) When committed in self-defense by one who reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of losing his life or receiving great bodily harm and that the killing is necessary to save himself from that danger....”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 764 So. 2d 164 - State v. Lewis · 820 So. 2d 604 - State v. Johnson

3. “`assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. King · State v. Harrell