State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Beck v. Alabama · Adams v. Texas · Morgan v. Illinois
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the penalty phase, if the trier of fact is a jury and the jury is unable to reach a verdict, the court shall dismiss the jury and shall impanel a new jury. The new jury shall not retry the issue of the defendant’s guilt or the issue regarding any of the aggravating circumstances that the first jury found by unanimous verdict to be proved or not proved. If the new jury is unable to reach a unanimous verdict, the court shall impose a sentence of life or natural life on the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subjectively appreciated that [his] acts were likely to result in the taking of innocent life.”
1 later decision 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.