State v. Lloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably State v. Artis (1989), State v. Syriani (1993)
3 federal appellate · 138 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Ake v. Oklahoma · Adams v. Texas
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all cases in which the death penalty may be authorized, the judge shall include in his instructions to the jury that it must consider any aggravating circumstance or circumstances or mitigating circumstance or circumstances from the lists provided in subsections (e) and (f) which may be supported by the evidence ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hurst · State v. Smith“no significant history of prior criminal activity”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker · State v. Turner“In determining sufficiency of the evidence to support this [aggravating] circumstance, the trial court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the State. The State is entitled to every reasonable inference to be drawn from the facts. Contradictions and discrepancies are for the jury to resolve, and all evidence admitted which is favorable to the State is to be considered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson · State v. Lynch
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.