O'ROURKE v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
December 1999
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sloan v. Hicks · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Collins v. Al Lockhart · Berry v. State · Miller v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature may itself narrow the definition of capital offenses,... so that the jury finding of guilt responds to this concern, or the legislature may more broadly define capital offenses and provide for narrowing by jury findings of aggravating circumstances at the penalty phase.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward 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.