Slaughter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Mills v. Commonwealth (1999), Tamme v. Commonwealth (1998)
4 federal appellate · 64 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 Furman v. Georgia · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Smith v. Phillips · Simuel v. United States · Cook v. Bordenkircher
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor may comment on tactics, may comment on evidence, and may comment as to the falsity of the defense position.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor, and (b) Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of statutory aggravating circumstances as enumerated in KRS 532.025(2), and (c) Whether the sentence of death' is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] confession of a defendant, unless made in open court, will not warrant a conviction unless accompanied by other proof that such an offense was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.