Satterwhite v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably Satterwhite v. Texas (1988), Harris v. State (1989)
24 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chimel v. California · Gregg v. Georgia
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the properly admitted evidence was such that the minds of an average jury would have found the State's case sufficient on the issue of the `probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society' even if [Dr. Coon's and Dr. Parker's] testimony had not been admitted. The admission of the testimony was harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt. Sanne v. State, 609 S.W.2d 762 (Tex.Cr.App.1980)." 726 S.W.2d at 93 . [material in brackets supplied]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State · Cook v. State“Dr. Grigson's testimony was not the only evidence offered by the State during the punishment phase of the trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris 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.