State v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Fair (2001), State v. Braxton (2000)
140 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 Strickland v. Washington · Doyle v. Ohio · Lockett v. Ohio · Estelle v. Smith · New Jersey 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]lain error analysis applies only to instructions to the jury and evidentiary matters.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`unless the argument strays so far from the bounds of propriety as to impede defendant's right to a fair trial.'”
2 later decisions 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.