Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Hunter v. State (1995), 739 So. 2d 90 - Larkins v. State (1999)
25 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Penry v. Lynaugh · Scharffe v. Perkins · Booth v. Maryland · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court must consider all evidence relative to competence and its decision will stand absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peede v. State“so minimal as to render the [ Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U.S. 302 , 109 S.Ct. 2934 , 106 L.Ed.2d 256 (1989),] issue irrelevant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so minimal as to render the Penry issue irrelevant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.