Milton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004 · most notably Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1987), Sharp v. State (1986)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia · Martin 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. the circumstances of the capital offense, including the defendant’s state of mind and whether he or she was working alone or with other parties; 2. the calculated nature of the defendant’s acts; 3. the forethought and deliberateness exhibited by the crime’s execution; 4. the existence of a prior criminal record, and the severity of the prior crimes; 5. the defendant’s age and personal circumstances at the time of the offense; 6. whether the defendant was acting under duress or the domination of another at the time of the commission of the offense; 7. psychiatric evidence; and 8. character evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keeton v. State“the evidence shows that Milton entered a liquor store in Fort Worth that was owned by Leonard and Menaree Denton. Milton pointed a gun at Mrs. Denton and ordered her to give him the money in the cash register. He then ordered the Dentons to the store's back room. Mr. Denton grabbed the barrel of Milton's pistol and started struggling for the gun. According to Denton, Milton kept trying to point the gun again and again at Mrs. Denton. Mrs. Denton broke two wine bottles over Milton's head but the fight continued. The gun went off, killing Mrs. Denton. Denton then yelled,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milton v. Procunier“[v]oir dire examination could take an unreasonable length of time if attorneys on both sides selected different words throughout a contemplated charge and asked each prospective juror what those words meant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milton v. Procunier
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.