State v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Anderson (2005), State v. Ellison (2006)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Ring v. Arizona · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Idaho v. Wright · Schad v. Arizona
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'any error as to the (F)(8) aggravator was harmless because we believe that no reasonable jury could have found differently than the trial judge.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The one or more homicides aggravating circumstance only applies if you find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed either: One, first degree murder; two, second-degree murder; three, manslaughter; or four, negligent homicide, and that these offenses were committed during the commission of the offense upon which the defendant is being sentenced. In order to find that this aggravating circumstance applies, you must find that the other murder or murders was committed during a continuous course of criminal conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson“`Hearsay' is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. May
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.