State v. Prevatte’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
101
cited by 101 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. Witt · Woodson v. North Carolina · McCleskey v. Kemp · Adams v. Texas · Williams v. Florida
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Decisions concerning which defenses to pursue are matters of trial strategy and are not generally second-guessed by this Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The (e)(9) aggravating circumstance can be submitted when the killing is agonizing or dehumanizing to the victim; when the killing is conscienceless, pitiless, or unnecessarily torturous to the victim; or when the murder shows the defendant's mind was unusually depraved, beyond the depravity normally present in first-degree murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Smith“outweigh[ed] any mitigating circumstance in a sufficiently substantial manner so as to call for the death penalty,”
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.