State v. English’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 505 So. 2d 714 - State v. Brooks (1987), State v. Brogdon (1984)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · 356 So. 2d 1370 - State v. Martin · State v. Lee · 359 So. 2d 965 - State v. Nicholas
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“torture or pitiless infliction of unnecessary pain on the victim.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sonnier · State v. Martin“especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence relative to aggravating or mitigating circumstances shall be relevant irrespective of whether the defendant places his character at issue.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sonnier · State v. Jordan
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.