State v. Battle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably State v. Antwine (1987), State v. Chaney (1998)
4 federal appellate · 38 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; and (2) Whether the evidence supports the jury's or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance as enumerated in section 565.012; and (3) Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foster“[t]he capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Wilkins“its broad discretion in concluding this prospective juror would automatically vote against capital punishment regardless of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Battle v. Delo
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.