State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · State v. Sheffield · State v. Dicks · Houston 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case two valid aggravating factors were clearly established. [King] had two prior felony convictions involving the use of or threat of personal violence. Also, the state presented proof that the appellant created great risk of death to two or more persons other than the victim during the course of the homicide. The proof supporting these two aggravating factors is overwhelming. Very little evidence of mitigation was offered. During the prosecutor's closing argument at sentencing, little emphasis was placed on the invalid aggravator. Furthermore, no additional evidence was introduced to support the invalid aggravating circumstance. . . . We conclude that the sentence would have been the same had the jury given no weight to the invalid felony murder aggravating factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State“We do not consider that the change in statutory language occurring in 1977 had the effect of abolishing the felony-murder rule, nor does felony-murder require proof of malice. Were that required, however, it might have been sufficiently shown in this case by statements attributed to appellant that he intended to kill the victim. There was also evidence that he threatened to kill the other persons in the tavern and was restrained from doing so by his code-fendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Bell“Very little was offered by way of mitigating circumstances other than the [defendant's] insistence that he was morally justified in his actions because [the victim] had refused to pay him for merchandise and his insistence that the shooting was accidental.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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