Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Grace · Ford v. State · Lancaster v. State · Franklin v. State · Cathey 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is not the law that the cause of death must be scientifically proven in every case. In many homicides this would be impossible, where, as here, there was substantial or total decomposition of the body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Driver
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.