State v. Weems’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Westfall (2002), State v. Dudley (2001)
1 federal appellate · 48 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 Jones v. Howard · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Bottoson v. Florida · Thompson v. Louisiana · State v. Dulany
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A person may, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this section, use physical force upon another person when and to the extent he or she reasonably believes such force to be necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful force by such other person, unless: (1) The actor was the initial aggressor; ... .... 2. A person may not use deadly force upon another person under the circumstances specified in subsection 1 of this section unless: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such deadly force is necessary to protect himself, or herself or her unborn child, or another against death, serious physical injury, or any forcible felony ; .... 3. A person does not have a duty to retreat from a dwelling, residence, or vehicle where the person is not unlawfully entering or unlawfully remaining. A person does not have a duty to retreat from private property that is owned or leased by such individual. 6”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. State · State v. Bruner“any theory of innocence ... however improbable that theory may seem, so long as the most favorable construction of the evidence supports it,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morrow · State v. Bruner“any theory of the case which his evidence tended to establish,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morrow · State v. Bruner
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.