State v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Bottoson v. Florida (1984), Otis v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (1993)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 · Proffitt v. Florida · Medlin v. Mann · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`previously convicted' clearly indicates that the date of the conviction, not of the commission of the crime is the important factor. The order in which the crimes were actually committed is irrelevant, as long as the convictions have been entered before the sentencing hearing at which they are introduced into evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. White · State v. Teague“Defendant concludes by arguing that the death penalty is cruel and unusual; the death penalty lacks penological justification; and death by electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment since it involves torture and prolonged suffering. This Court has rejected similar arguments in past cases. See State v. Melson, 638 S.W.2d 342 (Tenn.1982), cert denied, 459 U.S. 1137 , 103 S.Ct. 770 , 74 L.Ed.2d 983 (1984); State v. Austin, 618 S.W.2d 738 (Tenn.1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1128 , 102 S.Ct. 980 , 71 L.Ed.2d 116 (1981); see also Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242 , 96 S.Ct. 2960 , 49 L.Ed.2d 913 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barber
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.