State v. Sierra’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably State v. Barnes (1997), State v. Cummings (2000)
68 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 State v. Odom · Beal v. Franklin · State v. Brown · Robbins v. North Carolina · State v. Olson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) absence of provocation on the part of the deceased, (2) the statements and conduct of the defendant before and after the killing, (3) threats and declarations of the defendant before and during the occurrence giving rise to the death of the deceased, (4) ill will or previous difficulties between the parties, (5) the dealing of lethal blows after the deceased has been felled and rendered helpless, (6) evidence that the killing was done in a brutal manner, and (7) the nature and number of the victim’s wounds.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leazer · State v. Thomas“[T]he killing was not particularly cruel or brutal; no effort was made to conceal the crime beforehand and the firearms appear to have been on the defendant’s person prior to the killing. James Walls was shot only once. There was no obvious provocation but, in the light most favorable to the State, the facts tend to show the decision to shoot was simultaneous with the shooting. The State’s evidence failed to reveal any prior planning and in examining the factors previously discussed, the State’s evidence supporting premeditation and deliberation is not substantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant must establish not only that the trial court committed error, but that `absent the error, the jury probably would have reached a different result.'”
1 later decision 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.