State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Richmond v. Lewis (1992), State v. Gulbrandson (1995)
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 107 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 · Anders v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Arizona v. Fulminante · Payne v. Tennessee
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the record reveals that the trial court, for whatever reason, improperly sentenced a defendant to death, we must overturn that sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Comer v. Schriro · Comer v. Schriro“a mere character or personality disorder alone is insufficient to constitute a mitigating circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. Ryan · State v. Stuard“controlled [the] defendant's conduct or impaired his mental capacity”
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.