87 Wash. App. 73 - State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2004
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland · State v. Hendrickson · 125 Wash. 2d 570 - State v. Gentry · 109 Wash. 2d 222 - State v. Thomas · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is entitled to act on appearances in defending himself and another, if that person believes in good faith and on reasonable grounds that he and another [are] in actual danger of great bodily harm, although it afterwards might develop that the person was mistaken as to the extent of the danger. Actual danger is not necessary for a homicide to be justifiable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he invited error doctrine generally forecloses review of an instructional error.... But invited error does not bar review of a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel based on such an instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Studd“[a] jury may find self-defense on the basis of the defendant's subjective, reasonable belief of imminent harm from the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Studd
How this case has been treated — in progress
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