State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Bush v. Florida (1986), State v. Howell (1993)
2 federal appellate · 92 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 · Wainwright v. Witt · United States v. Jackson · People v. Collins · Holtan v. Nebraska
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so clearly interwoven and connected that the finger of guilt is pointed unerringly at the Defendant and the Defendant alone.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black · State v. Smith“does support the aggravating circumstance as defined in Williams .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'GUINN
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.