Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Arrington v. State (2009), Booth v. State (2017)
44 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 · Sheppard v. Maxwell · De Palma v. State · Hance v. State · Gissendaner 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the evidence shows that a battered victim has suffered a severe injury to their brain, resulting in the loss of normal brain functioning, they are said to have been `deprived of their brain,' thus suffering an aggravated battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Qs“there was evidence at trial from which the jury could have concluded that [the victim] did not die instantaneously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State“the evidence introduced at trial ..., was sufficient to enable rational triers of fact to find appellant guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson 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.