State v. Lumpkin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably State v. Avery (2003), State v. Collins (2004)
28 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 Strickland v. Washington · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Cage v. Louisiana · Fields v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. · Deboue v. Louisiana
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"1. A person in possession ... of premises ... may, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this section, use physical force upon another person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes it necessary to prevent ... what he reasonably believes to be the commission or attempted commission of the crime of trespass by the other person. 2. A person may use deadly force under circumstances described in subsection 1 of this section only: (1) ... fé) When he reasonably believes it necessary to prevent what he reasonably believes to be an attempt by the trespasser to commit arson or burglary upon his dwelling;.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kiser
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.