8 Wash. App. 340 - State v. Dunning’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “critical determination of the 'degree of force which ... a reasonable person in the same situation ... seeing what [s]he sees and knowing what [s]he knows, then would believe to be necessary.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 Wash. 2d 220 - State v. Janes · 452 So. 2d 661 - Toledo v. State

2. “may use that degree of force necessary to protect himself which a reasonably prudent man would have used under the conditions appearing to him at that time.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 23 Wash. App. 756 - State v. Fischer · 452 So. 2d 661 - Toledo v. State

3. “If the appellants, at the time of the alleged assault upon them, as reasonably and ordinarily cautious and prudent men, honestly believed that they were in danger of great bodily harm, they would have the right to resort to self defense, and their conduct is to be judged by the condition appearing to them at the time, not by the condition as it might appear to the jury in the light of testimony before it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow