State v. Koon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Skipper v. South Carolina (1986), State v. Council (1999)
3 federal appellate · 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Michigan v. Mosley
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The penalty phase of a capital murder case is concerned with the existence or nonexistence of mitigating or aggravating circumstances involved in or arising out of the murder, not the convicted murderer’s adaptability to prison life. The jury is concerned with the circumstances of the crime and the characteristics of the individual defendant as they bear logical relevance to the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chaffee“bear on a defendant's character, prior record, or the circumstances of his offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowman 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.