Carr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), Evans v. State (1997)
174 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Doyle v. Ohio · Lockett v. Ohio
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f there is evidence from which it may be reasonably inferred that a substantial reason for the killing was to conceal the identity of the killer or killings to "cover their tracks" so as to avoid apprehension and eventual arrest by authorities, then it is proper for the court to allow the jury to consider this aggravating circumstance. Under this construction the Court properly submits this aggravator to the jury if evidence existed from which the jury could reasonably infer that concealing the killer's identity, or covering the killer's tracks to avoid apprehension and arrest, was a substantial reason for the killing.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. State · Evans v. State“[I]t is this Court's role to inquire into whether there is any credible evidence upon which the jury could find the aggravating circumstance in question.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. State · Evans v. State“[c]ounsel may draw upon literature, history, science, religion, and philosophy for material for his argument.”
6 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.