Carruthers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Ceballos (2003), Vergara v. State (2008)
2 federal appellate · 63 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 Conner v. State · Crowe v. State · Carr v. State · Hill v. State · Greene 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel may bring to his use in the discussion of the case well-established historical facts and may allude to such principles of divine law relating to transactions of men as may be appropriate to the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]t is difficult to draw a precise line between religious arguments that are acceptable and those that are objectionable....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. King 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.