Pinkton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), 517 So. 2d 1346 - Lockett v. State (1987)
60 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 United States v. Leon · Furman v. Georgia · Enmund v. Florida · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(7) In order to return and impose a sentence of death the jury must make a written finding of one or more of the following: (a) The defendant actually killed; (b) The defendant attempted to kill; (c) The defendant intended that a killing take place; (d) The defendant contemplated that lethal force would be employed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A separate, explicit and written jury finding in accordance with the subsection is indispensable to the valid imposition of the death penalty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Although a more complete instruction might have prevented the jury's omission, that omission is nonetheless an event legally distinct from the judge's failure to instruct. The jury's obligation in this matter is, after all, independently imposed by the statute without reference to any action by the judge. Once this is understood, the state's argument immediately falls. Pinkton could raise no objection to the jury's dereliction until after its verdict was rendered, and then it was too late.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.