State v. Newlon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Antwine (1987), Newlon v. Missouri (1982)
6 federal appellate · 167 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 · Furman v. Georgia · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; (2) Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance as enumerated in subsection 2 of section 565.032 and any other circumstance found. (3) Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime, the strength of the evidence and the defendant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Now, if you say he deserves the death penalty, under the law, Judge Ruddy must review it and if he agrees, then his decision is reviewed by the Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“depravity of mind and ... as a result thereof ... was outrageously or wantonly horrible or inhuman”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Grubbs v. Delo · Newlon v. Missouri
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.