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← 295 S.C. 462 - State v. Howard

State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
February 1999
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Edwards v. Arizona · Richardson v. Marsh · Hoffa v. United States · Michigan v. Jackson

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “no prejudice from its exclusion at the penalty phase of the trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Howard's unredacted confession contained no mitigating evidence,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “actually was the leader and decision-maker.”
    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.