Teffeteller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably 476 So. 2d 130 - Bertolotti v. State (1985), 477 So. 2d 553 - Hill v. State (1985)
58 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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Wingo v. Wedding · Medlin v. Mann · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Pope v. Nebraska
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fact that the victim lived for a couple of hours in undoubted pain [after the shotgun blast] and knew that he was facing imminent death, horrible as this prospect may have been, does not set this senseless murder apart from the norm of capital felonies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Comments of counsel during the course of a trial are controllable in the discretion of the trial court, and an appellate court will not overturn the exercise of such discretion unless a clear abuse has been made to appear.”
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.