Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 1996
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hammons v. State · Page v. State · Abercrombie v. State · Lawrence 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) identify the significant mitigating and aggravating circumstances found; (2) state the facts and reasons which lead the court to find each circumstance; and (3) demonstrate that the circumstances have been balanced in determining the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Duckworth“failed to make any statement whatsoever when rendering Pearson's sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIver v. State
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.