Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2025
24 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 Grillot v. State · Jones v. State · McCoy v. State · Boone v. State · Jordan 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[we have] consistently defined circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life as deliberate conduct that culminates in the death of another person. We have also stated that extreme indifference requires actions that evidence a mental state on the part of the accused to engage in some life-threatening activity against the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jefferson v. State · Sykes 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.