State v. Pinch’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 243 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 261 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably McKoy v. North Carolina (1990), State v. Benson (1988)
12 federal appellate · 243 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[P]rosecutorial statements are not placed in an isolated vacuum on appeal. Fair consideration must be given to the context in which the remarks were made and to the overall factual circumstances to which they referred. Moreover, it must be remembered that the prosecutor of a capital case has a duty to pursue ardently the goal of persuading the jury that the facts in evidence warrant the imposition of the ultimate penalty."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spruill · State v. Rouse“`independent consideration of the individual defendant and the nature of the crime or crimes which he has committed.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The statutory aggravating circumstance or circumstances which the jury finds beyond a reasonable doubt; and, (2) That the aggravating circumstance or circumstances found by the jury are sufficiently substantial to call for the imposition of the death penalty; and, (3) That the mitigating circumstance or circumstances are insufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstance or circumstances found.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. McCarver · State v. Holden
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.