Beam v. Paskett’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 1301 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Matthews v. Evatt (1997), Blue v. State (1996)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Bruton v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Estelle v. McGuire · Ake v. Oklahoma
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether [it] was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice or any other arbitrary factor,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Idaho Code Section 19-2515(h)(2) — at the time the murder was committed the defendant Hairston also committed another murder. 2. Idaho Code Section 19-2515(h)(6) — by the murder, or circumstances surrounding its commission the defendant exhibited utter disregard for human life. 3. Idaho code Section 19 — 2515(h)(7)—the murder was committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate robbery and burglary and the defendant killed, intended the killing, or acted with reckless indifference to human life. 4. Idaho Code Section 19-2515(h)(8) — the defendant by prior conduct or conduct in the commission of the murder at hand exhibited a propensity to commit murder which will probably constitute a continuing threat to society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider possible errors in sentencing that are not raised by the defendant or were not objected to at his trial,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nave v. Delo · Nave v. Delo
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.