Cargill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Wright v. Illinois (1987), Isaacs v. State (1989)
1 federal appellate · 130 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 · Faretta v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Matlock · Dutton v. Evans
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if defense counsel objects to a statement of the prosecutor, and if the trial court instructs the jury that the remarks of counsel in opening [statement] are of no probative value, no error is committed where it does not appear that the remarks of the prosecutor were otherwise than in good faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Uh, David, this is Tommy. I wanted you to know I didn’t want to tell them all this stuff, but I got to thinking about all of it and I’ve done some serious thinking. Right now, buddy, you’re the only hope I got. They’ve got me charged with it. The only way they can clear me with it is for you to tell them that you done it. I don’t know if you’ll do that or not, but I’d appreciate it if you would. It’s hard for me to ask you to do something like this after I done went and told on you and all, but right now you’re the only hope I’ve got, buddy. David, I want you to think about something. I know you don’t have a family and all, but I’ve got a little girl and one day I want to get out and see her; but as it stands, unless you tell them, there ain’t no way I’ll ever be able to do that, buddy. I don’t know if you love your old lady and that little boy or not, but I wouldn’t take nothing in the world for mine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cargill v. Turpin“The evidence will show, while we’re talking about Richard Whitley, and why he’s with these folks [Cargill, among others], I don’t know, but that Whitley was a successful contractor, businessman, relatively wealthy, but that he got involved with these folks according to the best information that we have on discussing some problems that he had with a former wife and that he wanted this former wife killed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cargill v. Turpin
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.