State v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2020
2 district · 21 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 · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Berger v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not error for a trial court to refuse to give a requested instruction if the instruction given by the court, although not in the form requested, adequately covers the subject of the requested instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The trial court instructed the jury that, if it answered the questions in the affirmative, ` the law requires that the penalty shall be death' (emphasis added) and that, if it answered [any or all] of the questions in the negative, `the law requires that the penalty shall be life imprisonment.' Those instructions accurately conveyed to the jury its role in determining [the] defendant's sentence. That was enough. * * * The trial court did not err in refusing to give defendant's requested jury instructions concerning the jury's role in determining defendant's sentence." Ibid. (emphasis in original; citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore“"The test for whether a particular criminal procedure violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is whether the procedure is fundamentally fair, or whether a different procedure is necessary to prevent miscarriages of justice." (Citation omitted; emphasis supplied.)”
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.