Ex Parte Sockwell’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Loggins v. State (2000), 778 So. 2d 199 - Hyde v. State (1998)
42 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem · Soberon v. United States · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“murder ... for pecuniary gain or for valuable consideration or pursuant to a contract or for hire”
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.