State v. Papasavvas’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Koskovich (2001), State v. Harris (2004)
56 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Lockhart v. McCree · Morgan v. Illinois
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prosecutor's conduct must have been clearly and unmistakably improper, and must have substantially prejudiced defendant's fundamental right to have a jury fairly evaluate the merits of his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Believing that Mrs. Place was feigning death when she remained motionless, defendant, hoping to frighten her into getting up, threatened to sexually assault her if she did not comply. Sexual contact was evidenced by sperm found on Mrs. Place’s body during the autopsy. A tan belt retrieved from Mrs. Place’s raincoat, which the State medical examiner referred to as a ligature, impeded Mrs. Place’s breathing because it pushed her tongue to the side.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Papasavvas“should have been limited to describing the physical properties of the implement that caused the [victims'] deaths, narrating the physiological status of the bodies at the time of death, and ruling out the possibility that the injuries were selfinflicted or sustained as a result of mere inadvertence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.