State v. Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), Richmond v. Lewis (1992)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 98 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Enmund v. Florida · Santoni v. United States · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In death penalty cases, this court will conduct an independent examination of the record to determine for ourselves the presence or absence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and the weight to give to each. We also independently determine the propriety of the sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Jordan III ") (Sec. 13-703 requires the death penalty if no mitigating circumstances exist). 51 122 The State relies on the holdings of its courts that the statute's assignment of the burden of proof does not violate the Constitution. The Arizona Supreme Court reasons that "[o]nce the defendant has been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, due process is not offended by requiring the defendant to establish mitigating circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.