State v. Teague’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Stamper v. Commonwealth · Holtan v. Nebraska · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no certain way of knowing whether the jury would have sentenced appellant to death if they had not considered evidence that appellant had been arrested in 1978 on a serious felony charge. It does appear to us, however, that some prejudice, of necessity, resulted from the jury considering the warrant and the subsequent arrest of appellant. As heretofore noted in the guilt phase of the trial, the state introduced evidence tending to show that the motive for the killing of Teresa Teague was to keep her from testifying against appellant on a charge that he had murdered John Mark Edmonds. A co-conspirator named in the improperly admitted 1978 warrant was John Edmonds. The probability of prejudice resulting from .the consideration of the improperly admitted evidence, in our opinion requires that the sentence of death be reversed and the cause be remanded to the trial court for a sentencing hearing.” 645 S.W.2d at 399 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adkins · State v. Terry““The probability of prejudice resulting from the consideration of the improperly admitted evidence, in our opinion requires that the sentence of death be reversed and the cause be remanded ... for a sentencing hearing.” State v. Teague, Tenn., 645 S.W.2d 392, 399 (1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Terry“[e]vidence is relevant to punishment only if it is relevant to a statutory aggravatingcircumstance or to a mitigating factor raised by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.