State v. Zarinsky’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Ellis (1985), McDuff v. State (1997)
3 federal appellate · 48 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993)
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Jackson · Stack v. Boyle · Toussie v. United States · United States v. Ash
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inextricably tied to the imposition of the death penalty, upon abolition of the death penalty, that procedural provision would fall; on the other hand, if the history and purpose underlying the provision evidences a broader policy goal, that provision should be interpreted to effectuate such a goal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“chose to examine individually each legislative enactment affected by the concept of crimes punishable with death in view of the broader policy goals implicated in the legislative design.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“societal interest in punishing the guilty is so strong”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.