State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably State v. Gallegos (2007), Lytle v. Jordan (2001)
120 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 · Williams v. Taylor · Manson v. Brathwaite · Williams v. People of State of New York · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard instruction contained all the elements necessary to establish the aggravating circumstance of the murder in the commission of a kidnapping and the evidence established the occurrence of a separate and distinct kidnapping.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry“satisfied that the jury understood the factual distinctions necessary to find the aggravating circumstance of murder in the commission of a kidnapping without more precise definition from the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry“a degree of scrutiny that reflects `the qualitative difference of death from all other punishments,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry
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.