State v. Koon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
March 1998
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Pulley v. Harris · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Sireci v. Florida · Brewer v. Indiana
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“future adaptability to prison [is] irrelevant evidence because it does not bear on a defendant's character, prior record, or the circumstances of his offense[,] . . . [p]ast behavior in prison does bear on a defendant's character and, therefore, is relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.