Reeve v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2010
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 Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage · Wells v. State · Nelson v. State · Folger v. State · Gerlach 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: (a) Conduct which would otherwise be an offense is justified by reason of necessity to the extent permitted by common law when (1) neither this title nor any other statute defining the offense provides exemptions or defenses dealing with the justification of necessity in the specific situation involved; and (2) a legislative intent to exclude the justification of necessity does not otherwise plainly appear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a person claiming necessity in justification of a 'continuing offense' must offer some evidence that the continued violation of the law-as well as the initial violation-was justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State“[an objective determination must be made as whether the defendant's value judgment was correct, given the facts as he reasonably perceived them”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State
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.