State v. Pinkston’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably State v. Antwine (1987), State v. Vinson (1975)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 Keegan v. Kavanaugh · People v. Evans · Fletcher v. State · State v. Lentz · Bennett 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Persons whose opinions are such as to preclude them from finding any defendant guilty of an offense punishable with death, shall be ineligible to serve as jurors on the trial of an indictment or information charging any such offense, unless such disqualification is waived by the representative of the state when selecting the jury in any such case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mitchell“If you were accepted as a juror in this case, if you believe and found from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty, if you believe from that evidence that the death penalty was proper penalty to follow a finding of guilt, would you vote for it?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster 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.