State v. Hightower’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Preciose (1992), State v. Harvey (1997)
79 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 · United States v. Cronic · Woodson v. North Carolina · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Booth v. Maryland
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he murder was committed for the purpose of escaping detection, apprehension, trial, punishment or confinement for another offense committed by the defendant or another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Hightower“[t]he murder was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated assault to the victim,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Hightower“The determination of a life or death sentence in a capital case is an extraordinarily delicate and sensitive judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Hightower
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.