State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. Brown (1995)
82 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · In re Martin-Trigona · Adams v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. · Prince v. United States · State v. Carpenter
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ertain criminal conduct may fairly be considered as falling somewhat short of the extreme end of the murder spectrum, but be at the most extreme end of the manslaughter spectrum and deserving of the maximum punishment for that crime.”
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.