State v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. United States · State v. Powell · David W. McKay v. Texas · Pope v. Nebraska · State v. Earnhardt
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many times you hear about events like this, shootings, murders and you say, well somebody ought to do something about that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are that somebody that everybody talks about. Today you speak for the people of Northampton County. You are Northampton County. Today you send a message, a thunderous message, to those who would even think of coming to this county and committing acts like the defendant and his friends did on August the 6th, 1989. The buck stops here, ladies and gentlemen, and you cannot pass it along. It’s in your laps. The police can’t do anymore, the Judge can do no more. It’s up to you to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lemons
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.