Strickler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992)
3 federal appellate · 84 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Sandstrom v. Montana · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Adams 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here two or more persons take 'direct part' in inflicting fatal injuries, each joint participant is an 'immediate perpetrator' for the purposes of the capital murder statutes.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jointly participated in the fatal beating.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Commonwealth's theory of the case was that Strickler and Henderson had acted jointly to accomplish the actual killing”
4 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.