Terry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Camp · Jusino v. Brown · Schlossberg v. Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · Drye v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5) defendants are prohibited from addressing jurors’ popular misconceptions about matters relevant to sentencing, i.e., the cost of incarceration versus cost of execution, deterrence, method of execution, and parole eligibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(6) the jury is instructed that it must agree unanimously in order to impose a life sentence, and is prohibited from being told the effect of a nonunanimous verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(7) requiring the jury to agree unanimously to a life verdict violates Mills v. Maryland 2 and McKoy v. North Carolina 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.