State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1. A person may ... use physical force upon another person when and to the extent he reasonably believes such force to be necessary to defend himself ... from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful force by such other person ... [[Image here]] 4. The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue of justification under this section.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Crumley

2. ““[The accused] presented no evidence as to what he reasonably believed to be the imminent danger, and the trial court rejected his tendered self-defense instruction on this ground. The burden was on [the accused] to inject this issue, and he failed to overcome this burden.” Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Crumley