State v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), Williams v. Calderon (1995)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 Chapman v. State of California · Maynard v. Cartwright · Clemons v. Mississippi · Parker v. Dugger · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Ryan · State v. Gales“In summary, Clemons . . . sets forth three options available to appellate courts in death penalty cases where there has been an error concerning the trial court’s finding of aggravating and/or mitigating circumstances. First, the court may analyze and reweigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances itself to determine whether or not the scale tips in favor of the death penalty. Second, the court may conduct a harmless error analysis to determine whether or not error by the district court in finding aggravating or mitigating circumstances has prejudiced the rights of the defendant. Third, the court may remand the cause for a new sentencing hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an appellate court invalidates one or more of the aggravating circumstances, or finds as a matter of law that any mitigating circumstance exists not considered by the sentencing panel in its balancing, the appellate court may, consistent unth the U.S. Constitution, reweigh the remaining circumstances or conduct a harmless error analysis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.