State v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Clark v. Florida (1984), State v. Ervin (1992)
6 federal appellate · 33 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The defendant has a substantial history of serious assaultive convictions § 565.012.2(1). (2) The murder of each victim was committed while the defendant was engaged in the commission of capital murder of the other victim. § 565.012.2(2) (3) The defendant murdered both Lottie and Clarence Williams for the purpose of receiving money or any other thing of monetary value. § 565.012.2(4)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) "The defendant has a substantial history of serious assaultive convictions." (§ 565.-012.2(1)). (2) “The murder of each victim was committed while the defendant was engaged in the commission of capital murder of the other victim.” (§ 565.012.2(2)). (3) “The defendant murdered Lottie and Clarence Williams for the purpose of receiving money or any other thing of monetary value.” (§ 565.012.2(4)). (4) "The murders of Lottie and Clarence Williams involved depravity of mind and that as a result thereof it was outrageously wanton and horrible.” (§ 565.012.2(7)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant has a substantial history of serious assaultive convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laws v. Armontrout
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.