State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

300

cited by 300 later decisions

cited 2 times by the Supreme Court

states following

March 2026

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 295 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 300 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Carter (1995), State v. Landrum (1990)

3 federal appellate · 295 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Ake v. Oklahoma · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Ungar v. Sarafite · Morris v. Slappy

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 300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Whether the court has abused its discretion depends upon the circumstances, `particularly * * * the reasons presented to the trial judge at the time the request is denied.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Sanders, Unpublished Decision (10-22-2004) · State v. Prom, Unpublished Decision (5-9-2005)
“a court's right to control its own docket and the public's interest in the prompt and efficient dispatch of justice.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Prom, Unpublished Decision (5-9-2005) · State v. Payne, Unpublished Decision (4-2-2007)
“Where the restraint or movement of the victim is merely incidental to a separate underlying crime, there exists no separate animus sufficient to sustain separate convictions; however, where the restraint is prolonged, the confinement is secretive, or the movement is substantial so as to demonstrate a significance independent of the other offense, there exists a separate animus as to each offense sufficient to support separate convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Lawson · State v. Lawson

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.