Schiro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2010
4 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 Proffitt v. Florida · Schiro Farley Superintendent Indiana State Prison et al · Harris v. Alabama · Martinez Chavez v. State · Schiro v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As part of our death penalty review we will independently consider the jury recommendation against death and determine whether the death penalty is appropriate. However, we will not employ a standard that requires the facts in the record to so clearly point to the imposition of the death penalty that the jury’s recommendation is unreasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“requirled] an express judicial response to a jury recommendation against death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witt v. State
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.