Elam v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2012
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Wright v. Wright · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · Estate of Johnson v. Engle · 608 So. 2d 784 - Fotopoulos 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ccording to its statutory definition, violence is not an inherent element”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough the defendant was bludgeoned and had defensive wounds, the medical examiner testified that the attack took place in a very short period of time ("could have been less than a minute, maybe even half a minute"), the defendant was unconscious at the end of this period, and never regained consciousness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the problems inherent in a trial record that does not adequately reflect a defendant's waiver of his right to present any mitigating evidence.”
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.