State v. Kiles’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Gulbrandson (1995), State v. Anderson (2005)
2 federal appellate · 72 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gregg v. Georgia · Godfrey v. Georgia · Walton v. Arizona · Lewis v. Jeffers
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Defendant was an adult at the time the crimes were committed and the victims were under the age of fifteen. A.R.S. § 13-703(F)(9) (1989) (amended 1993). B. Defendant has been convicted of one or more other homicides which were committed during the commission of the offense. A.R.S. § 13-703(F)(8) (1989). C. Defendant committed the offense in an especially heinous, cruel, or depraved manner. A.R.S. § 13-703(F)(6) (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokley“[t]he death penalty may be imposed only if at least one of 10 statutory aggravating circumstances exists”
1 later decision 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.