State v. Buell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 343 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 384 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
11 federal appellate · 343 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 384 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““A jury recommendation to the Court that the death penalty be imposed is just that — a recommendation. * * “* * * [Y]ou will then proceed to determine which of two possible life imprisonment sentences to recommend to the Court. Your recommendation to the Court shall be one of the following: That Jay Scott be sentenced to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 20 full years of imprisonment; or Jay Scott be sentenced to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 30 full years of imprisonment. “This particular recommendation which you make is binding upon the Court, and I, the Judge, must impose the specific life sentence which you recommend.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott · State v. Steffen“Petitioner was denied due process and equal protection of the law when his trial attorney’s request for a two-week continuance within which to prepare for mitigation was denied in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.