Duckett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021
20 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 Martin v. Ohio · Gibson v. United States · 128 W. Va. 166 - State v. Foley · Commonwealth v. French · Scheikofsky 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the inclusion of the specific statement of the burden of proof would have been preferable * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The common law extends the right of self-defense to defend against any number of assailants, who are acting together, when a defendant is in danger of serious bodily harm.... “[The right to defend another] has been held to be available even if the defendant’s act of defense was not directed against the actual assailant, but was directed against a person who, under the particular circumstances, could reasonably be suspected at that time of being a criminal confederate of the direct assailant.” 6 Am.Jur.2d, Assault and Battery, § 63 at 58 (1963){citing Gafford v. State, 37 Ala.App. 377 , 68 So.2d 858, 859-60 (1953)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mangum
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.