State v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), State v. McKenzie (1980)
13 federal appellate · 39 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 Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Santobello v. New York
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed by a person serving a sentence of imprisonment in the state prison. (2) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed by a defendant who had been previously convicted of another deliberate homicide. (3) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed by means of torture. (4) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed by a person lying in wait or ambush. (5) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed as a part of a scheme or operation which, if completed, would result in the death of more than one person. (6) The offense was deliberate homicide as defined in subsection (1)(a) of 45-5-102, and the victim was a peace officer killed while performing his duty. (7) The offense was aggravated kidnapping which resulted in the death of the victim or the death by direct action of the defendant of a person who rescued or attempted to rescue the victim. (8) The offense was attempted deliberate homicide, aggravated assault, or aggravated kidnapping committed while incarcerated at the state prison by a person who has been previously: (a) convicted of the offense of deliberate homicide; or (b) found to be a persistent felony offender pursuant to part 5 of this chapter and one of the convictions was for an offense against the person in violation of Title 45, chapter 5, for which the minimum prison term is not less than 2 years. (9) The offense was deliberate homicide and was committed by a person du”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reading the two provisions together, the sentencing court is required to consider mitigating circumstances and is required to consider the presentence investigation report which must contain any matters relevant to mitigation. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... The people of Montana voted for 147,023 and against 77,733, to retain the death penalty. Such a vote, so recently, negates any argument the death penalty violates contemporary standards of decency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.