State v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Silhan · State v. Johnson · State v. Lloyd · Lloyd v. North Carolina · State v. Lloyd
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f our law permitted the district attorney to exercise discretion as to when an aggravating circumstance supported by the evidence would or would not be submitted, our death penalty scheme would be arbitrary and, therefore, unconstitutional. Where there is no evidence of an aggravating circumstance, the prosecutor may so announce, but this announcement must be based upon a genuine lack of evidence of any aggravating circumstance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams · State v. Prevatte
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.