State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Glenn v. Ohio · State v. Chambers · Clemmons 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an absence of provocation or aggression on the part of the defender; (2) a reasonable belief that deadly force is necessary to protect himself or herself against an immediate danger of death, serious physical injury, rape, sodomy, or kidnapping or serious physical injury through robbery, burglary or arson; (3) a reasonable cause for that belief; and (4) an attempt by the defender to do all within his or her power consistent with his or her own personal safety to avoid the danger and the need to take a life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stiers 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.