State v. Daw’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1978
12 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 State v. Sloan · State v. Jennings · Patten v. People · State v. Stickney · People v. Trim
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . a person assailed may act upon appearances as they present themselves to him, meet force with force, and even slay his assailant; and though in fact he was not in any actual peril, yet if the circumstances were such that a reasonable man would be justified in acting as he did, the slayer [or person assaulting another under such circumstances] will be held blameless. (Citations omitted.)” (Bracketed material in original.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Porter · State v. Reiner“If the evidence discloses a tumultuous trespass by three or more persons seeking to commit an unlawful act, those constituting the assemblage may be termed `rioters' * * * and, in connection with the instructions on the right of self-defense, the court should point out to the jury the essential difference between an assault by such a body of men, and that by an individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Porter
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.