Pye v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Klauenberg v. State (1999), Fults v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 75 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Doyle v. Ohio · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a procedure has been recognized in a substantial number of courts, a trial judge may judicially notice, without receiving evidence, that the procedure has been established with verifiable certainty, or that it rests upon the laws of nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace v. State“That Pye could harm a prison guard is a reasonable inference, considering that he had been convicted of several violent crimes, including murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. State“A party cannot during the trial ignore what he thinks to be an injustice, take his chance on a favorable verdict, and complain later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heidler 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.