State v. Laney’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2005
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Pesce v. United States · Spinkellink v. Wainwright · State v. Cherry
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.
“[t]he murder was committed while the defendant was engaged in committing, or was an accomplice in the commission of, or was attempting to commit, or was fleeing after committing or attempting to commit, any first degree murder, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, larceny, kidnapping, aircraft piracy, or unlawful throwing, placing or discharging of a destructive device or bomb.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel in that it involved torture or depravity of mind,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Henley v. State“a certain degree of capriciousness in the deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stephenson
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.