State v. Locklear’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Braxton (2000), State v. Cummings (2000)
115 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Darden v. Wainwright · Hernandez v. New York
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the burden of showing error and that there was a reasonable possibility that a different result would have been reached at trial if such error had not occurred”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Experimental evidence is competent and admissible if the experiment is carried out under substantially similar circumstances to those which surrounded the original occurrence. The absence of exact similarity of conditions does not require exclusion of the evidence, but rather goes to its weight with the jury. The trial court is generally afforded broad discretion in determining whether sufficient similarity of conditions has been shown.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shed[] light on defendant's age, character, education, environment, habits, mentality, propensities, or criminal record, or on the circumstances of the offense for which defendant was being sentenced”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Smith
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.