State v. McKoy’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Stager (1991), State v. Bonney (1991)
3 federal appellate · 114 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 Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Dobbert v. Florida · United States v. Jackson
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The capacity of Roscoe Artis to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law was impaired. (2) The defendant, Roscoe Artis, is bordering on mild mental retardation with a full scale intelligence quotient of 67. (3) Roscoe Artis is an illegitimate child and experienced less than normal relationships with his mother and father. (4) Roscoe Artis was gainfully employed on October 22, 1983. (5) Roscoe Artis has done prior good works. (6) Roscoe Artis in his formative years was subjected to abuse by his family. (7) Any other circumstance or circumstances arising from the evidence which you the jury deem to have mitigating value.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Quick · State v. Wynne“The error ... is one of federal constitutional dimension, and the State has the burden to demonstrate its harmlessness beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]ny other circumstance or circumstances arising from the evidence which you the jury deem to have mitigating value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Stager · State v. Greene
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.