Castro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Fox v. State (1989), Romano v. State (1993)
9 federal appellate · 26 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Barber v. Page · Dobbert v. Florida · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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.
“"We find that Barclay [ v. Florida , 463 U.S. 939 , 103 S.Ct. 3418 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1134 (1983)] and Goode , when read together, make clear that a state appellate court may constitutionally independently re-weigh aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a death sentence must be vacated as arbitrary and capricious, in light of a finding on appeal that a particular aggravating circumstance, which was considered by the sentencer, was not supported by sufficient record evidence. We believe that this independent reweighing under such circumstances provides a rational safeguard for the constitutional requirement 'that death penalty statutes be structured so as to prevent the penalty from being administered in an arbitrary and unpredictable fashion.' California v. Brown , 479 U.S. 538 , 540 , 107 S.Ct. 837 , 839 , 93 L.Ed.2d 934 (1987). We further find that the foregoing analysis supports the constitutionality of this Court's recent decision in Stouffer v. State , 742 P.2d 562 (Okla.Crim.App. 1987) (Opinion on Rehearing), holding that an independent reweighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances is implicitly necessary to a determination that a death sentence be factually substantiated and valid pursuant to this Court's duty to conduct a mandatory capital sentencing review under 21 O.S. 1981 , § 701.13[ 21-701.13 ](F). As the plurality stated in Barclay , '[t]here is no reason why the [state court] cannot examine the balance struck by the [sentencer] and dec”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statutory capital sentencing scheme which simply alter `the methods employed in determining whether the death penalty was to be imposed.... even though it may work to the disadvantage of a defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Williamson 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.