Couch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Davasher v. State (1992), Purifoy v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Wicks v. State · Amadeo v. Russeau · Gruzen v. State · Miller v. State · Westbrook 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing the death of another person, he causes the death of any person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hogan v. State · O'Rourke v. Endell“Appellant recognizes that we recently addressed this identical argument and approved the trial judge’s refusal to give the proposed instruction. [Curry v. State, supra]. However, he urges that we overturn Curry. We do have the power to overrule an opinion previously rendered. Gregg v. Road Improvement Dist. No. 2, 169 Ark. 671 , 277 S.W. 515 (1925). However, there should be settled rules for the proper administration of justice and we will adhere to our previous decisions unless some injury or injustice will result. Rhea v. State, 104 Ark. 162 , 147 S.W. 463 (1912). In Curry, supra, we carefully considered the sharp divisions of authority on this issue and reexamined our previous decisions as stated in Campbell v. State, 216 Ark. 878 , 228 S.W.2d 470 (1950). We see no injustice in our decision and adhere to that position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madison v. State“capital murder was committed while the capacity of Michael O'Rourke to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to [conform] his conduct to the requirements of law was impaired as a result of mental disease or defect, intoxication, or drug abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Rourke v. Endell
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.