Buxton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Drew v. State (1987), Nichols v. State (1988)
33 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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Enmund v. Florida · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this guy seen him when he was coming out and he hollered for the guy to stop and he didn't so he shot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buxton v. Collins
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.