King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Vergara v. State (2008), Fults v. State (2001)
5 federal appellate · 56 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · Giglio v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, counsel has made statements regarding prejudicial matters not in evidence before the jury, OCGA § 17-8-75 provides the trial court with discretion to order a mistrial. His or her refusal to do so, coupled with appropriate curative instructions and admonishment of state’s counsel, absent manifest abuse, will not be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he trial court’s charge to the jury, which stressed that they should consider any mitigating evidence and that they could impose a sentence less than death for any or no reason, was an appropriate instruction that sufficiently informed the jury of its relevant duties in deciding [Brockman’s] sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brockman v. State“The trial court did not err by sustaining the State's objections to King's apparent effort to have jurors ... enumerate the mitigating circumstances they would give weight to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Willis 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.