Braley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Washington v. State (2003), Humphreys v. State (2010)
59 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 · Wainwright v. Witt · United States v. Mazurie · Malcolm v. State · Earnest 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial courts should tailor their charges to match the allegations of indictments, either by charging only the relevant portions of the applicable Code sections or by giving a limiting instruction that directs the jury to consider only whether the crimes were committed in the manner alleged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[R]eliable evidence of bad character ... is admissible in the sentencing phase of a death penalty trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. State“[q]ualifying potential jurors on the basis of their death penalty views is not unconstitutional. [Cit.]”
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.