State v. Ring’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
156
cited by 156 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 129 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Jones v. United States · Enmund v. Florida · Scott v. United States
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Arizona, a defendant cannot be put to death solely on the basis of a jury’s verdict, regardless of the jury’s factual findings. The range of punishment allowed by law on the basis of the verdict alone is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole or imprisonment for "natural life" without the possibility of release.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bottoson v. Moore · State v. Fell“a `death sentence may not legally be imposed ... unless at least one aggravating factor is found to exist beyond a reasonable doubt,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Xaviar · Ring v. Arizona“sufficiently substantial to call for leniency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.