Roper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Clark v. State (1999), Chapel v. State (1998)
70 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 · Idaho v. Wright · Harris v. State · Dover v. State · McKissick 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularized guarantees of trustworthiness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hayes v. State · McGee v. State“After reviewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, we find that the evidence is sufficient to have authorized the jury to find that the state excluded all reasonable hypotheses except that of the defendant’s guilt, and to have authorized any rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves v. State“were made by the victim to a [close friend] in whom she placed great confidence and to whom she turned for help with her problems.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McGee 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.