Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), Doyle v. State (1996)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Cage v. Louisiana · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Franklin v. Lynaugh · McDougall v. North Carolina
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The condition of mind described as depravity of mind is characterized by an inherent deficiency of moral sense and rectitude. It consists of evil, corrupt and perverted intent which is devoid of regard for human dignity and which is indifferent to human life. It is a state of mind outrageously, wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“The only circumstances by which murder of the first degree may be aggravated are: 8. The murder involved torture, depravity of mind or the mutilation of the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pertgen v. State“[i]n order to preserve the issue of prosecutorial misconduct for appeal, the defendant must raise timely objections and seek corrective instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riker 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.