Puckett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Buckley v. State (2002), McGehee v. State (1999)
41 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 Littlepage v. State · Brown v. State · Mills v. State · Stewart v. State · King 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 [vice-tim].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. 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.