Pickering v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2003
13 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 Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Greene v. Massey · Williams v. State · Ahearn 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence as a whole raises a suspicion of appellant’s guilt. The law deems such level of proof to be insufficient to support a conviction upon circumstantial evidence. Despite the heinous facts in the record before us we cannot uphold a conviction upon less proof than the law requires. We hold the evidence to be insufficient to support appellant’s conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Battle 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.