Castor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2013
12 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Sloan v. Hicks · Belisle v. Anzivino
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy at the base of the exercise of the police power here is to create a special deterrence to the direction of physical force against [those] upon whom the security of the community depends.” We believe that the societal rationale for imposing death for one who kills a law enforcement official is promoted only if the defendant knew that the victim was a law enforcement official at the time of the lolling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. State“[The State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant intentionally shot and killed a law enforcement officer acting in the course of his duty and that he knew that the victim was a law enforcement officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“knew that the victim was a law enforcement officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore 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.