State v. Tison’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Tison v. Arizona (1987)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 188 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Wainwright v. Sykes · Santobello v. New York · Lockett v. Ohio
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The senselessness of the murders, given the inability of the victims to thwart [their captors’] escape, especially in such an isolated area, and the fact that a young child, less than two years old, who posed no threat to the captors, was indiscriminately shot while in the arms of his mother, compels the conclusion that the actual slayers possessed a shockingly evil state of mind.” 129 Ariz. at 543, 633 P.2d at 352.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Mata · State v. Gretzler“the victims must have experienced a great degree of mental pain by being moved from the highway at gunpoint in apprehension of the possibility of eventually being murdered and through witnessing the commission of the murders on the other family members.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Mata · State v. Lambright“did not specifically intend that the Lyons and Theresa Tyson die, that they did not plot in advance that these homicides would take place, [and] that they did not actually pull the triggers on the guns which inflicted the fatal wounds. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Tison · Tison v. Arizona
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.