Guy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Gentry (2005), Leonard v. State (2001)
2 district · 66 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Enmund v. Florida · Tison v. Arizona · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Whether the evidence supports the finding of an aggravating circumstance or circumstances; (d) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice or any arbitrary factor; and (e) Whether the sentence of death is excessive, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McConnell v. State“Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CARDOVA 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.