Childs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Torrence (1991), Isaacs v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 116 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Berkemer v. McCarty · Felker 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o conclude otherwise would produce the intolerable result that an offender with no prior record could commit numerous separate murders one after the other before being apprehended, and then, at the trials for those murders, could never receive death under this aggravating circumstance even though convicted of each and every one of the murders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is error to charge the jury that a crime may be committed by either of two methods, when the indictment charges it was committed by one specific method”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and the court's refusal to grant an overnight recess did not deprive the defendant of his right to testify”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terrell 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.