Esty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk v. State (1998), 645 So. 2d 377 - Spencer v. State (1994)
35 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 Holland v. United States · Victor v. Nebraska · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Crisp v. Rubin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he record in this case reveals a number of factors that support the jury's recommendation, including Esty's age of eighteen at the time of the murder, his lack of a criminal history, his potential for rehabilitation, and the possibility that he acted in an emotional rage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless resulting from sympathy, [it] could have been based only on minor, mitigating circumstances and was without any reasonable basis in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keen v. State“possible doubt, a speculative, imaginary or forced doubt,”
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.