Pickens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), Gardner v. State (1988)
53 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 · Woodson v. North Carolina · Dobbert v. Florida · Lockhart v. McCree · Skipper v. South Carolina
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.
“[U]pon appellate reversal of a conviction the Government is. not limited at a new trial to evidence presented at the first trial, but is free to strengthen its case in any way it can by the introduction of new evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tims v. State · State v. Harris“We are unaware of any reason why the State should be precluded from introducing additional relevant evidence on remand at a resentencing trial, especially when appellant’s guilt already has been established and when appellant has in no manner shown or demonstrated prejudice from the admission of such evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill 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.