Arango v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Connecticut v. Johnson (1983), Evans v. State (1985)
22 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 Payton v. New York · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A careful reading of the transcript ... reveals that the burden of proof never shifted. The jury was first told that the state must establish the existence of one or more aggravating circumstances before the death penalty could be imposed. Then they were instructed that such a sentence could only be given if the state showed the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances. These standard jury instructions taken as a whole show that no reversible error was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In other words, where safety is threatened and time is of the essence, . . . `the need to protect life and to prevent serious bodily injury provides justification for an otherwise invalid entry.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.