State v. Leisure’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Ervin (1992)
8 federal appellate · 79 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In State v. Young, 701 S.W.2d 429 (Mo. banc 1985), appellant offered a substantially similar instruction for use in the punishment phase. This Court determined that Note on Use 5 of MAI-CR2d 15.44 decided the issue and that the trial court did not err in refusing the proffered instruction. Note on Use 5 reads: The jury may consider extenuating or mitigating circumstances even though not set out as “statutory” mitigating circumstances in Section 565.012.3 and even though not “authorized by law” within the meaning of that phrase discussed in 4 above. However, no instruction should be given calling the jury’s attention to any particular circumstance referred to in general in this paragraph. [Emphasis added.] In Young , this Court held that the language in the instruction offered by appellant referred to particular circumstances within the meaning of Note on Use 5, “which the jury could have considered, but upon which the jury should not have been instructed.” 701 S.W.2d at 437 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mathenia v. Delo · State v. Smith“A determination of the existence and depth of bias and prejudice can be made accurately only after a potential juror understands the legal requirements of her responsibility as a juror. We do not expect venire[persons] to come to court with a legally sufficient or unerringly correct understanding of the requirements the law imposes on jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown · State v. Moore“but whether the jurors of ... [Feltrop's] trial had such fixed opinions that they could not judge impartially the guilt of the defendant.”
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.