Conklin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably McClain v. State (1996), Frazier v. State (1987)
4 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Blalock v. Blalock · De Palma v. State · Felker v. State · Hance v. State
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“terminates at the instant of death, so that nothing that happens afterward can be considered in determining whether the offense of murder is outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhumane. Conklin v. State, 254 Ga. 558 , 331 S.E.2d 532, 539 (Ga.1985). The Georgia standard, while phrased in terms of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wood“allowing an attorney to supplement the court's charge by reading, in the jury's presence, law that the court is not going to charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arthur v. Walker“[p]ost-mortem mutilation of a body may show depravity of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wood
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.