Love v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Ervin (1992), Fowler v. Park Corp. (1984)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Holloway v. Arkansas · Butz v. Hein · New York Mercantile Exchange v. Leist · Seales v. State · State v. Franco
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for seeking to employ the best defense for his client by not offering the jury a middle ground for conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yaeger v. State“that a reasonable attorney could have decided [the] instruction would have been detrimental to his client”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“instruction was required by the then applicable law”
1 later decision 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.