Alderman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Isaacs v. State (1989), DeYoung v. State (1997)
4 federal appellate · 50 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Enmund v. Florida · 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a case is retried as to sentence, both the state and the defendant are entitled to offer evidence on the issue of guilt or innocence, not because the validity of the conviction is at issue, but because the jury needs to examine the circumstances of the offense ... in order to decide intelligently the question of punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether or not a venireman might vote for death under certain personal standards, the state still may properly challenge that venireman if ... the juror's views [on capital punishment] would `prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope v. State“prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope v. State
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.