Vernon Kills on Top v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Mount (2003), McGarvey v. State (2014)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Kyles v. Whitley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] punishes as a crime an act which was not unlawful when committed; [2] makes punishment for a crime more burdensome; or [3] deprives [a] person charged with a crime of any defense available under the law at the time the act was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mount“To the extent Petitioner's complaints relate to the equity of his sentence, those complaints are properly addressed to the Sentence Review Division of this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zimmerman“[e]vidence is material if there is a reasonable probability that the result would have been different had the evidence been disclosed to the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thompson
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.