Pickens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably Miller v. State (1980), Pickens v. Al Lockhart (1983)
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gregg v. Georgia · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida · United States v. Edwards
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no basis in the record to hold that the sentence of death was wantonly or freakishly imposed against [petitioner].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On the basis of the trial court’s finding, we must conclude that the motion for new trial was properly overruled. We note that in some instances there are some omissions of isolated words in the transcript, however, appellant does not contend that the transcript before the Court omits any matters of consequence. 551 S.W.2d at 214 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“makes the cold-blooded calculation that by annihilating his victim he thereby eradicates an eyewitness to his crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.