State v. DiFrisco’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Marshall (1997), State v. Bland (1997)
39 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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Enmund v. Florida · Pulley v. Harris
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In frequency analysis, we determine the rate of death sentencing in similar cases. This helps to reveal how jurors and prosecutors treat similar cases. Precedent-seeking review engages familiar judicial ease-by-case analysis. We compare defendant’s case to factually similar cases to discern whether defendant is deathworthy vis-a-vis other similarly situated defendants. We then compare the results of the two analysis to determine whether imposition of the death sentence in this instance is disproportionate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harvey“The probability range, or more appropriately, the confidence interval, is delineated by upper and lower limits and is established by a ninety-five percent confidence interval. That means we are ninety-five percent certain that all defendants with characteristics similar to [defendant] will have a predicted probability of receiving a death sentence [within the probability range]; the smaller the confidence interval, the more reliable the predicted probability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper“statistically-relevant measures of culpability found in the circumstances of their cases, such as the infliction of severe pain or suffering, the existence of a contemporaneous sexual assault or robbery, or the prior commission of murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper
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.