Lowery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Deboue v. Louisiana (1990), Bivins v. State (1995)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Rideout v. United States · Enmund v. Florida
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.
“However, before you may make a decision that either death or life without parole is an appropriate sentence, all of you must reach a unanimous decision that the State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of at least one aggravating factor. You must also reach a unanimous decision that such aggravating factor outweighs any mitigating factors that any one or more of you may have found to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Overstreet v. State“capacity ... to conform [his] conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired as a result of mental disease”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baird II v. Davis“under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baird II v. Davis
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.