State v. Zuern’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 266 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Carter (1995)
3 federal appellate · 266 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 · Furman v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd · Harrington v. California
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the nature of the case and the exacting review necessary where the death penalty is involved, [it] reserve[d] the right to consider the constitutional challenges in particular cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not precluded from extending mercy to a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner
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.