Head v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Allen v. State (2004), Davis v. State (2009)
40 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Daniels v. Lassalle · Mitchum v. State · McClain 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel enjoys very wide latitude in closing arguments, and may make use of well-known historical facts and illustrations, so long as he does not make extrinsic or prejudicial statements that have no basis in the evidence.... Counsel’s illustrations during closing argument may be as various as are the resources of his genius; his argumentation as full and profound as his learning can make it; and he may, if he will, give play to his wit, or wing to his imagination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the overwhelming evidence of appellant's guilt, we conclude it is highly probable that [any] error in this instance did not contribute to the judgment against appellant, and thus was harmless. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“was not offered in order to establish `the truth of the matter asserted therein . . . thus resting for its value upon the credibility of the out-of-court asserter.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cawthon 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.