State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Bolton (1995), State v. Gallegos (1994)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 Arizona v. Fulminante · Lockett v. Ohio · Santoni v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Walton v. Arizona
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proving mitigation is on the defendant, A.R.S. § 13-703(C), and the duty to call such evidence to the court's attention also is on the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gallegos · State v. Medina“The defendant has proven by a preponderance of the evidence that he has a personality disorder characterized by antisocial conduct. However the defendant's antisocial conduct is largely a consequence of his attempt to find acceptance by his fellow street gang members. Knowing that these acts, which hurt others, are wrong and are at variance with the good values he was taught at home by his parents, the defendant turns to the use of drugs, alcohol and inhalants, which, in turn, releases his tendencies toward violent conduct. As noted by Dr. Bayless, the defendant voluntarily chooses the path of least resistance by emulating the conduct of his antisocial peers, by becoming intoxicated regularly, and by shutting out the values he learned as a child. The Court finds that the defendant's personality disorder is not a mitigating circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medina“The trial judge in this case was not misled____In his concluding portion of the special verdict he reiterated that “the prosecution and the defendant have been permitted to rebut any information received at the hearing, including information presented at the trial, and were given fair opportunity to present argument as to the adequacy of the information to establish the existence ... of any mitigating circumstances whether listed in A.R.S. § 1S-70S(G) or not.” (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Ryan
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.