Branch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably DeGarmo v. State (1985), Casias v. State (1970)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Green v. United States · Davis v. Mississippi · Hamilton v. Alabama · Vessels 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * "* * * The United States Supreme Court in Simpson v. Rice, the companion case to North Carolina v. Pearce, supra, holds that increased sentences on retrial which are the product of the sentencing judge's retaliatory motives or vindictiveness should not be imposed. In this case Hamilton Branch's increased punishment cannot be the result of a retaliatory motive on the part of the sentencing judge because here the appellant's punishment, in accordance with his request, was assessed by the jury. * * *" * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller“We specifically reject appellant's claim that evidence offered at the guilt stage of the proceedings cannot be considered in determining the issue or issues to be determined at the penalty stage of the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laday 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.