Colwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Head v. Hill (2003), Humphreys v. State (2010)
34 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 · Faretta v. California · Furman v. Georgia · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of admissible evidence demanding a different result, the trial court did not err in declining to declare execution by electrocution unconstitutional”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawson v. State“appears to be in question at the time of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lámar 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.