Skipper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), 156 Ill. 2d 483 - People v. Cloutier (1993)
27 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 · Lockhart v. McCree · Pope v. State · Waters v. State · Spivey 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A criminal defendant is entitled to an impartial jury by the Sixth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. A juror who has made up his mind prior to trial that he will not weigh evidence in mitigation is not impartial. Such a 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.]" [Cit.] In other words, "an inability fairly to consider a life sentence is just as disqualifying as an inability fairly to consider a death sentence." [Cit.] [ Skipper v. State, 257 Ga. 802 (8) ( 364 SE2d 835 ) (1988).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. State“an inability fairly to consider a life sentence is just as disqualifying as an inability fairly to consider a death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. State“would have related to the issue of sentence, not to guilt or innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant 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.