Colvin-El v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Grandison v. State (1995), Conyers v. State (1997)
44 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Williams v. People of State of New York · Payne v. Tennessee · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In part, capital punishment is an expression of society’s moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct. This function may be unappealing to many, but it is essential in an ordered society that asks its citizens to rely on legal processes rather than self-help to vindicate their wrongs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grandison v. State“`Retribution is no longer the dominant objective of the criminal law,' Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 248 , 69 S.Ct. 1079, 1084 , 93 L.Ed. 1337 [, 1343] (1949), but neither is it a forbidden objective nor one inconsistent with our respect for the dignity of men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Clermont v. State
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.