State v. Libberton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), State v. Nash (1985)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 Enmund v. Florida · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Tison v. Arizona · Bibby v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as error going to the foundation of the case or that which takes from the defendant a right essential to his defense, and as error of such magnitude that the defendant could not possibly have had a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stuard“Pecuniary consideration must be a cause of the murder, not merely a result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaGrand
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.