State v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Ogden (1994), 1 N.M. Ct. App. 535 - State v. Tollardo (2012)
31 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Berger v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not elements of capital murder, but are instead intended to explain the kinds of circumstances that our legislature has determined warrant the most severe punishment for capital murder.... Where the legislature believed that intent was an appropriate criteria upon which a death sentence could be based, it included the specific requirement of intent to kill in the given aggravating circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry · State v. Fry“This instruction makes clear that each individual juror is to maintain and uphold his or her own convictions when deliberating on any [verdict]. It specifically states that the individual jurors should not be pressured into changing their opinions simply because their fellow jurors believe that a certain [verdict] should be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Litteral
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.