Darden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Darden v. Wainwright (1986), Dugger v. Adams (1989)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ethridge v. United States · 204 So. 2d 515 - State v. Jones · 112 So. 2d 380 - In re Florida Appellate Rules · Tyson 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably evident that the remarks might have influenced the jury to reach a more severe verdict of guilt than it would have otherwise done.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the rule against inflammatory and abusive argument by a state's attorney is clear, each case must be considered upon its own merits and within the circumstances pertaining when the questionable statements were made.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here was overwhelming eyewitness and circumstantial evidence to support a finding of guilt on all charges and a recommendation of a death sentence for first degree murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.