State v. . Penry’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
November 1959
most recently cited
21 state decisions
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may have been such as to excite suspicion, but the evidence does not exclude the rational conclusion that some other person may have been the guilty party,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Coffey
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.