Modden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Hernandez v. State (1991), Bower v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Enmund v. Florida · Adams v. Texas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The points of error are multifarious, contain incomplete or no citations to the record, and fail to state an adequate legal basis upon which complaint is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banda v. State“We do not express any opinion as to the appropriateness of a `frivolous appeal brief' in a capital case where the punishment was assessed at death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banda 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.