State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3,101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,119 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Foster (2006), State v. Rogers (2015)
3,101 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 United States v. Olano · State v. Long · United States v. Atkinson · State v. Issa · State v. Deem
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Long · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 3,119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]lain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
391 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that the defendant was not at fault in creating the situation giving rise to the affray; (2) that the defendant had a bona fide belief that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that his only means of escape from such danger was in the use of such force; and (3) that the defendant did not violate any duty to retreat or avoid the danger.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.