Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), Thomas v. State (2004)
46 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 Strickland v. Washington · Collier v. State of Nevada · McGuire v. State · Nevius v. State · Pellegrini 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tactical decision are virtually unchallengeable absent extraordinary circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“plea as well as a plea to the jury to return a death penalty verdict on behalf of the victim in this case. We disagree. In commenting that anything less than the death sentence would be disrespectful to the dead, we conclude that the prosecutor was merely pointing out to the jury that our society values human life, and in order to respect the value of human life, one who takes a human life in the manner that Witter did should have to pay for his crime with his own life. Furthermore, the prosecutor's statements painted a vivid picture for the jury, and any reference to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witter 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.