Stringer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Franklin v. Lynaugh (1988), McFee v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 132 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. Young · Lockett v. Ohio · Ashe v. Swenson · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state is limited to offering evidence that is relevant to one of the aggravating circumstances included in § 99-19-101.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doss v. State · Evans v. State“[P]hotographs of bodies may be admitted into evidence where they have probative value, and where they are not so gruesome as to be overly prejudicial and inflammatory.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“is to shame or coerce the jury into rejecting factors which would tend to mitigate against the death penalty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.