State v. Parkus’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably State v. Isa (1993), State v. Wise (1994)
4 federal appellate · 42 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 · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States · Jones v. Howard
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge has wide discretion in controlling the scope of closing argument and determining what constitutes impermissible references in the context of trial, ... and it is he who occupies the best position to observe the effect of contested statements on the jury. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“[b]ruises on the back of his hands, wrist and ankles indicated his arms and legs had been tied and that he had struggled against the bonds. External contusions on the neck as well as internal damage to the larynx demonstrated the cause of Steffenhagen's death was manual strangulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parkus v. Delo
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.