State v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Mata (2003), Dawes v. Wittrock Sandblasting & Painting, Inc. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 60 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 American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Gardner v. Florida · McCleskey v. Kemp · Yagow v. United States · Clemons v. Mississippi
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the aggravating circumstances as determined to exist justify imposition of a sentence of death; (2) Whether sufficient mitigating circumstances exist which approach or exceed the weight given to the aggravating circumstances; or (3) Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lafferty
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.