Driver v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the tendered instruction correctly states the law; (2) whether the evidence supports giving the instruction; and (3) whether other instructions already given cover the substance of the tendered instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodney W. Falls v. State of Indiana

2. “A claim of self-defense in a homicide prosecution requires that the defendant acted without fault, was in a place where he had a right to be, and was in reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm.”

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

3. “A valid claim of self-defense provides a legal justification for a person to use foree against another to protect himself from what he reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force.”

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