Palmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Spivey v. State (2002), Jenkins v. State (2000)
39 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 State v. Martin · Joyner v. State · Reaves v. State · State v. Canola · Carter 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the accused reasonably should have ... foreseen that the commission of or attempt to commit the contemplated felony would likely create a situation which would expose another to the danger of death ..., and where death in fact occurs as was foreseeable, the creation of such a dangerous situation is an intermediary, secondary, or. medium in effecting or bringing about the death of the victim."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“kills another human being while committing”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An abuse of discretion occurs 'only where the decision is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and cireumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Land 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.