State v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Glassel (2005), State v. Jones (2000)
11 federal appellate · 37 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 Giglio v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Payne v. Tennessee · Estelle v. Smith
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abusive family background is usually given significant weight as a mitigating factor only when the abuse affected the defendant's behavior at the time of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Hoskins“[I]f in the process of examining issues presented by way of appeal we stumble across fundamental error, then we have the discretion to address it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Barraza“[w]e have no way of preventing members of the community from writing judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Summerlin v. Stewart
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.