State v. Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably State v. Anderson (2005), State v. Hoskins (2000)
7 federal appellate · 32 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Enmund v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia · Santoni v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall consider as mitigating circumstances any factors proffered by the defendant or the state which are relevant in determining whether to impose a sentence less than death, including any aspect of the defendant’s character, propensities or record and any of the circumstances of the offense, including but not limited to the following: 1. The defendant’s capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Pandeli“had not yet been adequately narrowed pursuant to Godfrey ... at the time of [Richmond's] second sentencing. This did not occur until State v. Gretzler . See Lewis v. Jeffers . ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Mata“defendant committed distinct acts, apart from the killing itself,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Medina
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.