Mann v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Romano v. State (1995), Cheney v. State (1995)
2 district · 36 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Booth v. Maryland · California v. Ramos · Thompson v. Oklahoma
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he petitioner argues convincingly that the photographic evidence created an impermissible risk that his death sentence was based on considerations that are “totally irrelevant to the sentencing process,” because it focused the jury’s attention on the postmortem decomposition of the victim’s body rather than on “the character of the [defendant] and the circumstances of the crime.””
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.