State v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), State v. Patterson (1997)
33 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 Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Mississippi · State v. Linder · Moon v. State · State v. Plath
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury could recommend a life sentence `for any reason or no reason,' and that it need not find a mitigating circumstance in order to impose life imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charping · State v. Hughey“[m]ultiple life sentences cannot be aggregated in the imposition of prison time. Accordingly, they are to be considered as one general sentence, the parole eligibility for which is 20 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for purposes of parole eligibility, consecutive sentences should be treated as one general sentence by aggregating the periods imposed in each sentence”
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.