Atkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2024
20 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 · United States v. Young · Darden v. Wainwright · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Payne v. Tennessee
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The murder was committed while the person was engaged ... in the commission of or an attempt to commit or flight after committing or attempting to commit, any robbery, sexual assault, arson in the first degree, burglary . . . and the person charged: (a) Killed or attempted to kill the person murdered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolin v. State“Trial courts have considerable discretion in determining the relevance and admissibility of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Hardwick
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.