Darks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Shrum v. State (1999), Hogan v. Gibson (1999)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · County of Riverside v. McLaughlin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has repeatedly held that an instruction on a lesser included offense need only be given when there is evidence that tends to prove the lesser included offense was committed. Absent such evidence, an instruction should not be given.... Heat of Passion Manslaughter ... include[s] ... a showing that there was no premeditated design to effect death.[ 4 ] Here, Appellant shot the decedent four, times at close range in vital areas of her body: twice to the head and twice to the trunk of her body. As such, the trial court properly did not instruct on First Degree Manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darks v. Mullin · Darks v. Gibson“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have advised me through your foreperson that you have not reached a unanimous verdict as to punishment. I am going to ask you to deliberate further. You are advised that if upon further deliberation you are unable to agree unanimously as to a punishment recommendation, I shall discharge you, and according to law, I must impose either a sentence of life or a sentence of life without parole. You are excused at this time back into [the bailiffs] charge for further deliberations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darks v. Mullin · Darks v. Gibson“This Court has long held that failure to timely object to the legality of an arrest prior to entering a plea to the charges waives appellate review of the issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.