People v. Toler’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2023
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Cornelison · Lybarger v. People · Boykin v. People · Idrogo v. People · Bustamonte v. People
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If the Defendant was not the initial aggressor, and was where he had a right to be, he was not required to retreat to a position of no esceapé in order to claim the right to employ force in his own defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Toler“[Toler] does not get the self-defense claim for yet another reason. He also wasn't in a place where he was supposed to be. He was in somebody else's yard. He doesn't get it for that reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Toler“sets forth the circumstances in which a person is justified in using physical force”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Toler
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.