State v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 14 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Bjorklund (2000), State v. Bland (1997)
16 federal appellate · 14 district · 146 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida · Pulley v. Harris
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“murder [were] especially heinous, atrocious, cruel, or manifested exceptional depravity by ordinary standards of morality and intelligence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Rhines · State v. Victor“in a murder exists when it is shown, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the following circumstances, either separately or collectively, exist in reference to a first degree murder: (1) apparent relishing of the murder by the killer; (2) infliction of gratuitous violence on the victim; (3) needless mutilation of the victim; (4) senselessness of the crime; or (5) helplessness of the victim. 61 399 N.W.2d at 731-32. 62 Of course, the Palmer”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Rhines · State v. Ryan“[I]n some of our prior decisions we have indicated that the proportionality review in all death penalty cases is a comparison of the facts and circumstances in all first degree murder cases, whether the penalty imposed was death or life imprisonment. Upon further consideration of this question we have concluded that the review should include only those cases in which the death penalty was imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.