Brogie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Jones v. United States (1999), Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995)
8 federal appellate · 45 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As used in these Instructions, the term “Heinous” means extremely wicked or shockingly evil; “Atrocious” means outrageously wicked and vile; “Cruel” means pitiless, or designed to inflict a high degree of pain, utter indifference to, or enjoyment of the suffering of others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]pecific standards for the balancing of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances are not constitutionally required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rojem v. State · Walker 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.