79 Md. App. 136 - Watkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
May 2006
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Faulkner · Gore v. State · Bennett v. State · 1 Md. App. 556 - Tipton v. State · 50 Md. App. 578 - Holt 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... the defender unreasonably (though honestly) perceives the danger or unreasonably (though honestly) responds with more than necessary force, it is a case of imperfect self-defense, which mitigates the level of blameworthiness down to the manslaughter level even though it does not totally exculpate. (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims 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.