State v. Rockwell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), State v. Spears (1996)
12 federal appellate · 49 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 Strickland v. Washington · Sullivan v. United States · Copeland v. United States · Tison v. Arizona · Brogdon v. Louisiana
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adhere[d] to the principle that `where there is a doubt whether the death penalty should be imposed, we will resolve that doubt in favor of a life sentence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A finding merely that the imposition of the death penalty by the trial court was “factually supported” or “justified by the evidence” is not the separate and independent judgment by this court that the death penalty warrants. State v. Watson, 129 Ariz. 60, 63 , 628 P.2d 943, 946 (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marlow“the murder was part and parcel of the robbery because it resulted in eliminating the only witness to the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Canez
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.