101 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Bartholomew’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1987), 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992)
41 federal appellate · 97 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having in mind the crime of which the defendant has been found guilty, are you convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that there are not sufficient mitigating circumstances to merit leniency?”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“limited to defendant's criminal record, evidence that would have been admissible at the guilt phase, and evidence to rebut matters raised in mitigation by the defendant.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.