State v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1985 · most notably Jenkins v. Delaware (1969), 67 Cal. 2d 9 - People v. Doherty (1967)
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley · 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Murder is perpetrated by torture when the assailant intends to cause cruel suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or to satisfy some other untoward propensity, (citations omitted) There need not be an intent to cause death, but there must be a separate intent to cause extreme pain and suffering for one of the enumerated purposes, (citations omitted) It is not enough that defendant intended to cause extreme pain and suffering; there must also be evidence that he did so for revenge, extortion, persuasion or some other untoward propensity, (citations omitted) Furthermore, the death must have been caused by the torture, (citation omitted)” State v. Brock, 101 Ariz. 168, 171 , 416 P.2d 601, 604 (1966).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intent to kill without legal justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McIntyre
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.