State v. Leavitt’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Leavitt v. Arave (2004), Fetterly v. Paskett (1993)
16 federal appellate · 17 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 Strickland v. Washington · California v. Trombetta · State v. Mosley · Paradis v. State · State v. Needs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court failed to give adequate consideration of the alternatives which exist between the distant poles of `rehabilitation and possible probation,' or the death penalty. Clearly, alternatives were and are available to a sentencing court, such as a fixed life sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rhoades · State v. Pratt“Since the instant case involves a conviction of first degree murder and the imposition of the death penalty, we have carefully reviewed the record for any indication of prejudicial error occurring at trial, regardless of whether or not error has been specifically asserted by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leavitt v. Arave · Leavitt v. Arave“[T]he pretrial publicity had little if any effect on the potential jurors, and [we] find no indication that potential jurors would prejudge the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leavitt v. Arave · Leavitt v. Arave
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.