State v. Biegenwald’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably State v. Zola (1988), State v. DiFrisco (1994)
39 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Zant v. Stephens
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“individual characteristics of the offender and his crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a new aggravating factor under the guise of producing rebuttal evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Martini“We find no legislative history, decisional law, or policy considerations to recommend defendant's interpretation. We are satisfied that the status of the prior conviction at the time of its intended usethe penalty phase of the subsequent murder prosecutionis determinative. The relevance of such a conviction ... inheres in the fact that the conviction has occurred prior to the jury's consideration of the appropriate penalty to be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. White
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.