State v. Poland’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Tison v. Arizona (1987)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 114 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 Enmund v. Florida · Santoni v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Bullington v. Missouri · 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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“previously convicted of a felony in the United States involving the use or threat of violence on another person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to call for leniency have been found.”
3 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.