State v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Atwood (1992), State v. Murray (1995)
3 federal appellate · 89 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 Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · Mincey v. Arizona · Beck v. Alabama · Scharffe v. Perkins
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In capital cases, [the Arizona Supreme Court] independently examine[s] the record to determine the existence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and the propriety of imposing the death penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Comer v. Schriro · Comer v. Schriro“[s]ee what I've done, I'm a cold and callous killer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Comer v. Schriro · Comer v. Schriro“A. Criminal prosecutions shall be tried in the county in which conduct constituting any element of the offense or a result of such conduct occurred, unless otherwise provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Aussie
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.