State v. Burkhart’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2022
10 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 Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Skipper v. South Carolina · Washington v. Recuenco · State v. Torrence
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce improper evidence of any kind injects an arbitrary factor into the jury's consideration, this Court cannot uphold the death sentence under § 16-3-25(C)(1)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowman v. State“a review for harmless error is unnecessary because by definition, evidence that implicates an arbitrary factor is prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowman v. State“was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowman 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.