State v. Jeffers’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Lewis v. Jeffers (1990)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 225 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Katz v. United States · Wolff v. McDonnell · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · Procunier v. Martinez
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kiper · State v. Taylor“cruel” as "disposed to inflict pain esp. in a wanton, insensate or vindictive manner; sadistic.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“mitigating factors to refer to mitigating factors that are not specifically enumerated in subsections (G)(1)-(G)(5), but are nevertheless included in the broad catch-all provision required by Lockett. 4 The trial court sentenced Jeffers to death on the basis of two aggravating circumstances. First, the sentencing court found that, while committing the crime, Jeffers knowingly created a grave risk of death to another person in addition to the victim. Ariz.Rev.Stat. § 13-703(F)(3). Second, the trial court found that Jeffers committed the crime in a manner that was”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Jeffers · Jeffers v. Lewis
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.