State v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), State v. Cofield (1992)
6 federal appellate · 115 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]side from evidence that defendant had fired the shotgun and was knowledgeable about its capacity to inflict devastating injury, there was no proof that defendant's intention was to cause [the victim] pain and suffering, rather than to kill him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. McDougald · State v. Moore“Our concern is that if the c(4)(c) factor could be sustained on ... evidence [of revenge] alone, there would be `no principled way to distinguish [a] case, in which the death penalty was imposed, from the many cases in which it was not.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In a capital case, unlike the ordinary criminal prosecution, jurors need not reach a unanimous verdict. Thus, a decision not to agree is a legally acceptable outcome, which results not in a mistrial, but in a final verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.