State v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Webb (1996), State v. Satchwell (1998)
35 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Solem v. Helm · Jurek v. Texas
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all cases prosecuted in Connecticut after October 1, 1973, in which a capital felony could have been charged and which resulted in a homicide conviction following a plea or trial. The defendant argue[d] that this expanded universe of cases [was] necessary to enable [the] Court to evaluate his claim that race has an impermissible effect on capital sentencing decisions in Connecticut, rendering the imposition of the death penalty upon him disproportionate under § 53a-46b (b)(3).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id., 737-38. 9 The Cobb Court ultimately held that as a matter of statutory interpretation § 53a-46b (b)(3) did not contemplate the type of inquiry that would be necessitated by the defendant's motion. Id., 747, 752. 10 Most importantly, however, the Cobb Court stated that if the defendant were to have proceeded under § 53a-46b (b)(1),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In seeking to discern that intent, we look to the words of the statute itself, to the legislative history and circumstances surrounding its enactment, to the legislative policy it was designed to implement and to its relationship to existing legislation and common law principles governing the same general subject matter.”
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.