Ybarra v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Leonard v. State (2001), Domingues v. State (1996)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person convicted of murder of the first degree shall be punished: (a) By death, only if one or more aggravating circumstances are found and any mitigating circumstance or circumstances which are found do not outweigh the aggravating circumstance or circumstances. (b) Otherwise, by imprisonment in the state prison for life with or without possibility of parole. If the penalty is fixed at life imprisonment with possibility of parole, eligibility for parole begins when a minimum of 10 years has been served.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gallego v. State · McKenna v. State“2. The jury . . . shall determine: (a) Whether an aggravating circumstance or circumstances are found to exist; (b) Whether a mitigating circumstance or circumstances are found to exist; and (c) Based upon these findings, whether the defendant should be sentenced to life imprisonment or death. The jury . . . may impose a sentence of death only if it finds at least one aggravating circumstance and further finds that there are no mitigating circumstances sufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstance or circumstances found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pertgen v. State“(1) The murder was committed by a person who was previously convicted of a felony involving the use of threat of violence to another. (2) The murder was committed while the person was engaged in the commission of or an attempt to commit any robbery. . . . (3) The murder was committed while the person was engaged in the commission of or an attempt to commit any sexual assault. . . . (4) The murder involved torture. . . . (5) The murder involved depravity of mind. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pertgen v. State
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.