Atkins v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Collier v. State (1979), Thaxton v. State (1990)
43 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 Benton v. Maryland · Carafas v. J · State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Henderson · Nelson v. George · Woods v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As felony murder is defined under Georgia law, the underlying felony is a lesser included offense of felony murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkinson v. State“should rest on the shoulders of the judiciary rather than on those of an imprisoned petitioner.”
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.