1997 OK CR 78 - Slaughter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Lott v. State (2004), 2006 OK CR 46 - Stouffer v. State (2006)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Young · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Godfrey v. Georgia · Maynard v. Cartwright
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion has been defined as a clearly erroneous conclusion and judgment, one that is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lott v. State · BARKUS v. STATE“[a] statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the de-clarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the startling event or condition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Surely killing a person infringes on that same right [to life]. Appellant has presented nothing to this Court showing that the Legislature's ability to establish a punishment of death for first degree murder in any way violates his 'inherent' right to life[, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carr
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.