Echols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Howard v. State (2012), Roberts v. State (2013)
64 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 State Oil Co. v. Khan · State v. Larimore · Penn v. State · Echols v. State · Pitts 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he medical records upon which [the petitioner] now relies were not only available prior to the date of his trial, they were, in fact, offered by the defense at trial and considered by the jury. His claim that he was not aware, at the time of his trial, of the extent of his mental problems is not credible, in the face of the evidence to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts 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.