State v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
4 federal appellate · 91 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Burks v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he qualitative difference of death from all other punishments requires a correspondingly greater degree of scrutiny of the capital sentencing determination.” Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 329 , 105 S.Ct. 2633, 2639 , 86 L.Ed.2d 231 (1985) (quoting California v. Ramos, 463 U.S. [992] at 998-99, 103 S.Ct. [3446] at 3452 [ 77 L.Ed.2d 1171 (1983)]).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Engberg v. Meyer · State v. Jacobs“the requirements of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that: “where discretion is afforded a sentencing body on a matter so grave as the determination of whether a human life should be taken or spared, that discretion must be suitably directed and limited so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Tansy“The requested instruction would have given the jury accurate information on what a life sentence actually means and would have served to correct misimpressions in some jurors' minds that a life sentence means `five or six' years or some other erroneously conceived period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.