King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984), 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State (1984)
1 federal appellate · 91 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 Godfrey v. Georgia · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · 381 So. 2d 983 - Jones v. State · 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 361 So. 2d 1360 - Irving 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [defendant's] argument creates an illusion of prejudice, which has no logical basis. If the jurors were unable to unanimously find that the aggravating circumstances were sufficient to impose the death penalty and that there were insufficient mitigating circumstances to outweigh the aggravating circumstances, then they could not return a death sentence. Further, in the event they could not unanimously agree after a reasonable period of deliberation, it would be the trial judge's duty under Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-103 to dismiss the jury and impose a sentence of life imprisonment on the jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Stringer v. State“find that any aggravating circumstances those which tend to warrant the death penalty outweigh the mitigating circumstances those which tend to warrant the less severe penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.