King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Barnes v. State (2001), Kemp v. State (1996)
72 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Logan v. State · Branscomb v. State · Hubbard v. State · Jackson v. State
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The “golden rule” argument suggests to jurors that they place themselves in the position of a party or victim. The golden rule argument is impermissible because it tends to subvert the objectivity of the jury. It is seen as an attempt to dissuade the jurors from their duty to weigh the evidence and instead to view the case from the standpoint of a litigant or party. The rule is applied to criminal cases as well as civil cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Puckett v. State · Kiyon L. Brown
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.