Reddix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 777 So. 2d 659 - Sheppard v. State (2000), Montana v. State (2002)
36 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 Screws v. United States · Clemons v. Mississippi · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · Mease v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bound to acquit Reddix if it found that he acted in self defense.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Crook v. State · Woods v. State“Accident and misfortune is an affirmative defense to aggravated assault. The defendant hhs asserted the defense of accident by claiming the shooting of ... Wells occurred as the result of the accidental discharge of a rifle she was bolding and pointing at ... Wells. If you find from the evidence that ... Towles shot ... Wells by accident and misfortune while performing a lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution and without any unlawful intent, then [you] are to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. If, however, you find from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the State has proven the necessary elements of aggravated assault and that the shooting of ,.. Wells by the defendant was not the result of accident and misfortune, you should find the defend dant guilty as charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficiently treat the subject of self-defense”
5 later decisions 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.