396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 343 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ex Parte Branch (1987), Baldwin v. Alabama (1985)
16 federal appellate · 312 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Reynolds v. Sims
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 343 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor;”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"In all cases in which the death penalty has been imposed, the court of criminal appeals shall notice any plain error or defect in the proceedings under review, whether or not brought to the attention of the trial court, and take appropriate appellate action by reason thereof, whenever such error has or probably has adversely affected the substantial right of the appellant."”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Baldwin · Ex Parte Tarver“[i]f the jury cannot agree on a sentence of death, the defendant shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rieber v. State · Arthur 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.