State v. Doerr’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Yarbrough (2002), State v. Sanders (2001)
2 district · 76 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 Taylor v. Louisiana · Pulley v. Harris · Walton v. Arizona · Jusino v. Brown · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co.
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.
“[T]he trial judge has broad discretion in determining the weight and credibility given to mental health evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoskins · State v. Canez“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 passagee.g. State v. Pandeli“[l]ay witnesses may give opinion testimony, even as to the ultimate issue, when it is `rationally based on the perception of the witness and... helpful to a clear understanding of the witness' testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.