Parks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Pope v. State (1986), Cargill v. State (1986)
4 federal appellate · 67 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Intent to kill is an essential element of both murder and voluntary manslaughter,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Nance v. State · Carter v. State“is a prophylactic rule designed to ensure `to the extent possible that disparities would be kept well below the constitutional minimum.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Edwards 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.