Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Zant v. Stephens (1983)
22 federal appellate · 79 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Smith v. Goguen · United States v. James Griggs Raines
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial history of serious assaultive criminal convictions”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“not provide the sufficiently 'clear and objective standards' necessary to control the jury's discretion in imposing the death penalty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““This doctrine has particular application to death penalty statutes after Furman v. Georgia, supra, where, if anything is made clear, it is that a wide latitude of discretion in a jury as to whether or not to impose the death penalty is unconstitutional”. ( 224 S.E.2d at 391 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · Stringer v. Black
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.