Schoels v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
1 federal appellate · 21 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. Alford · Berger v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Soberon v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Can we be guaranteed that for the next 30 or 40 years, a person who is sitting in prison the rest of his life is not going to flare up and get angry at a guard, like he did at the Clark County Detention Center .... So the question is simply this: Do we execute a person who has killed not once, but two times, or do we risk the execution of some very innocent people?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sherman v. State“[w]hen the evidence is concluded, . . . the district attorney, or other counsel for the State, must open and must conclude the argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will reverse the conviction or death penalty where the decision between life or death is a close one or the prosecution's case is weak”
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.