State v. Elledge’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Furman v. Georgia · Whitmore v. Arkansas · 30 Cal. 3d 841 - People v. Haskett · 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arguments intended to `incite feelings of fear, anger, and a desire for revenge' and arguments that are `irrelevant, irrational, and inflammatory . . . that prevent calm and dispassionate appraisal of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cross“`brutal murder involving substantial conscious suffering of the victim makes the murder more deserving of the death penalty.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cross“[w]hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cross
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.