Crump v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1987), McDougall v. North Carolina (1986)
2 district · 24 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 Pulley v. Harris · State v. Jordan · 105 Ill. 2d 414 - People v. Del Vecchio · Milton v. Procunier · Smith v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I snapped. ... I didn’t have nothin’ .... I told her she could take [the money] to hell with her. ... No crime of murder, of violence is justifiable, but in my estimation it was. . . . She deserved what she got, I don’t feel no remorse over it. ... I could have obtained my money without killing her. I just wanted to kill her. . . . It’s an eye for an eye. ... I premeditated. I knew I was going to kill her and I did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crump v. Warden“I would escape if you give me the opportunity; time is nothing. . . . Penitentiary time doesn’t affect me at all; If I was to get out of here today, I’d hurt somebody today; and I would like the death penalty because I deserve it. ... I don’t want to hurt nobody else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crump v. Warden
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.