State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2006
17 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 Skipper v. South Carolina · California v. Brown · State v. Linder · State v. Smart · State v. Plemmons
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We again remind solicitors their final argument in the penalty phase of a capital trial must be carefully tailored so as not to appeal to the personal bias of a juror, nor calculated to arouse his passion or prejudice. State v. Bell, [293 S. C. 391], 360 S. E. (2d) 706 (S. C. 1987). The argument must be confined to the record and its reasonable inferences and must focus on the characteristics of the defendant and the nature of the crime. See State v. Bell; State v. Smart, 278 S. C. 515, 299 S. E. (2d) 686 (1982); State v. Linder, 276 S. C. 304, 278 S. E. (2d) 335 (1981). This Court’s decisions condemning arguments by solicitors are so numerous, the principle is elementary. Yet, solicitors continue to ignore the law as set forth by this and higher courts. We hope the dictates of this opinion may finally be heard by the solicitors of this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patterson“[was] devoid of evidence appellant made a knowing and intelligent waiver of [his] right [to final argument].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charping“the trial judge erred in allowing the State to have the closing argument in the guilt phase of his trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charping
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.