State v. Correll’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Tison v. Arizona (1987)
16 federal appellate · 156 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4241 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Anders v. California · Pointer v. Texas · Weaver v. Graham · Enmund v. Florida · Dobbert v. Florida
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Defendant committed the offense as consideration for the receipt, or in expectation of the receipt, of anything of pecuniary value. A.R.S. § 13-703 (F)(5). B. Defendant committed the offense in an especially heinous, cruel, or depraved manner. A.R.S. § 13-703 (F)(6). C. Defendant has been convicted of one or more other homicides which were committed during the commission of the offense. A.R.S. § 13-703 (F)(8).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the murders were a part of the overall scheme of the robbery with the specific purpose to facilitate the robbers escape”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaGrand · State v. Canez“very carefully executed the armed robbery and the murders were part of the scheme of the robbery”
2 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.