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Weeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Wooley v. State (1999), Carter v. State (1999)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

190199820002010decided

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 Widener v. State · Archer v. State · Gambill v. State · Prowell 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the extent of the defendant’s inability to control his or her behavior due to the disorder or impairment; (2) overall limitations on functioning; (3) the duration of the mental illness; and (4) the extent of any nexus between the disorder or impairment and the commission of the crime.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Roderick Vandrell Lewis v. State of Indiana · Williams v. State
  2. “`in the same manner' as any other guilty defendant, trial courts should at a minimum carefully consider on the record what mitigating weight, if any, to accord to any evidence of mental illness, even though there is no obligation to give the evidence the same weight the defendant does.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pruitt v. State · Smith v. State
  3. “[A] defendant found GBMI is to be sentenced `in the same manner as a defendant found guilty of the offense.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pruitt v. State · Powell 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.