Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State (1999), 488 So. 2d 523 - State v. Mischler (1986)
2 federal appellate · 101 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Wingo v. Wedding · Medlin v. Mann
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]enceforth lack of remorse should have no place in the consideration of aggravating factors. Any convincing evidence of remorse may properly be considered in mitigation of the sentence, but absence of remorse should not be weighed either as an aggravating factor nor as an enhancement of an aggravating factor.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] party may not invite error and then be heard to complain of that error on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On January 19, 1981, the bodies of A1 Doranz and Caesar Di Russo were discovered in an apartment rented to Kristine Walters. Both had been dead several days but Di Russo’s body was in a more advanced state of decomposition than Doranz’s. Both victims had been shot, Doranz three times and Di Russo ■five times. ■ A spent .22 caliber shell casing was found under Di Russo’s body. Three days later, the body of Kristine Walters was found floating in a canal. She had been shot six times with exploding ammunition, her skull was fractured and she had been thrown into a canal while still breathing. All three victims had been shot with exploding ammunition, so ballistics comparison was impossible. However, parts of an AR-7 rifle were found in the canal near Walter’s body and the spent'shell casing under Di Russo’s body had been fired from an AR-7 weapon. Investigation led to [Mr. Pope’s] girlfriend, Susan Eckard, and ultimately police were able to show that Doranz purchased an AR-7 rifle for Pope shortly before the murder. Eckard and Pope admitted being with Doranz and Walters at Walters’s apartment on Friday night, the night Doranz and Di Russo were killed. Eckard later testified that Pope arranged a drug deal with Doranz and Di Russo. She stated that she and-Pope left Walters’s apartment to visit Clarence “Buddy” Lagle and to pick up some hamburgers. They then returned to the apartment where Pope and Doranz convinced Walters to go with Eckard to the apartment where Pope had been stayi”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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