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State v. Bey’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
4
states following
January 2013
most recently cited

2 district · 39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably State v. Marshall (1997), State v. Bland (1997)

2 district · 39 state decisions

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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 McCleskey v. Kemp · California v. ARC America Corp. · State v. Ramseur · Weichert v. United States · State v. Koedatich

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “affect the procedural fairness of the trial, not the substance of the crime, [and] `do not necessarily bear on the jury's determination of deathworthiness.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco
  2. “Proportionality review seeks to determine only whether a particular death sentence is aberrational, not whether it compares perfectly with other sentences.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco
  3. “according to statistically-relevant measures of culpability, such as the infliction of severe pain or mental suffering on the victim, a contemporaneous sexual assault or robbery, and the commission of prior murder.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco

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.