State v. Rader’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1947
10 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 Powell v. State · Keener v. State · Eiland v. State · Cumming v. State · Rogers 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right ' of . self-defense in these cases is founded in the law of nature, and is not, nor can be, superseded by any law of society; for before civ.il societies were formed (one may conceive of such a state of things, though it is difficult to fix the period when civil societies were formed), I say before societies were formed for mutual defense and preservation, the right of self-defense resided in individuals; it could not reside elsewhere; and since in cases of necessity .individuals incorporated into society cannot resort for protection to the law of the society, that law with great propriety and strict justice considered! them as still .in that instance under the protection of the law of nature.” Foster’s Crown Cases, 273.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Self-defense, therefore, as it is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be .in fact, taken away by the law of society.’ 2 Cooley’s Blackstone, 3 (book III, p. 4).””
1 later decision 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.