State v. Weind’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), State v. Adams (1980)
38 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · United States v. Jackson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [A] defendant, even if he pleads guilty or no contest, is not assured that any or all of the specifications contained in his indictment will be dismissed, since the court may dismiss such specification in the ‘interests of justice.’ * * *” (Emphasis sic.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nabozny · State v. Buell““The discretion given to the trial judge in Crim. R. 11(C)(3) to dismiss the specifications ‘in the interests of justice’ when the defendant enters a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge of aggravated murder is neither violative of defendant’s constitutional right to equal protection of the laws nor does it coerce the defendant to waive his constitutional right to a jury trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Buell“the indictment contains one or more specifications [of aggravating circumstances], and a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge [of aggravated murder with specifications] is accepted, the court may dismiss the specifications and impose sentence [of life imprisonment] accordingly, in the interests of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lockett v. Ohio
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.