State v. McDermott’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2024
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Thompson v. Oklahoma · DiLeo v. Ernst & Young · State v. Gallion · 70 Wis. 2d 280 - Rosado 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judges must not only make their independent analyses of issues presented to them for decision, but should also explain their rationale to the parties and to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the conclusions reached by the studies were already in exis tence and well reported by the time [the defendant] was sentenced in 2000”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sobonya
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.