State v. Rossi’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), State v. LaGrand (1987)
11 federal appellate · 54 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Santoni v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Sullivan 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the trial judge finds that defendant's capacity was significantly impaired ... a mitigating factor arises which is then weighed against any aggravating circumstances that the trial judge may find to determine whether mitigating factors are sufficiently substantial to call for leniency”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rossi · Richmond v. Lewis“When a defendant is to be resentenced in death cases, evidence and testimony should be as fresh as possible, and ... relying on a previous hearing on mitigation and aggravation conducted months before the imposition of the death penalty is not recommended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffers v. Lewis · Jeffers v. Lewis“Before defendant fired the fatal shot, the victim leaned against his bedroom wall and pleaded with defendant, stating 'You have my money, you shot me, what more do you want?' This evinces the victim's mental anguish”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rossi · Walton v. Arizona
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.