Clines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), Griffin v. Texas (1984)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Woodson v. North Carolina · Enmund v. Florida
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) [T]he person previously committed another felony an element of which was the use or threat of violence to another person or creating a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State“not require the same degree of proof to sustain a jury finding that an aggravating or mitigating circumstance exists as we would require to sustain a conviction if that circumstance was a separate crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willett v. State“There was direct evidence from more than one source that appellants had discussed among themselves the necessity of murder if they met resistance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tison v. Arizona
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.