People v. Cuevas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2021
11 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 People v. Jones · People v. Alexander · Eckhardt v. People
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The totality of the circumstances, including the number of persons who reasonably appeared to have been a threat to the defendant, should be considered by the jury in determining whether the defendant's use of force was necessary and reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Irons · State v. Irons“if [it]) were to find that there was at least a reasonable doubt as to there being combat by agreement, [it] should consider whether [the] defendant was acting in self- . defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rios“[the physical force involved is the product of a combat by agreement not specifically authorized by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaufman v. People
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.