State v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably State v. Tokar (1996), State v. Ervin (1992)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Adams v. Texas · Michelson v. United States · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court should have declared a mistrial sua sponte when the prosecutor in his closing argument at the punishment stage asked the jury to decide whether or not the Appellant’s “blood is more valuable than people who honorably give their lives so that we can be free from fear” (Tr. 1167) which was objected to by counsel for Appellant, but sustained. The language was clearly inflammatory. Similarly, the prosecutor argued, “We are a nation of laws and we don’t change the law for just particular circumstances. If the law is to be enforced, especially in these types of cases where someone brutalizes a baby, we must. Because if we fail to do that in this case, [it] says something about us and our society” (Tr. 1175). Appellant’s counsel immediately objected, arguing that the statement was an incitement to the community that if the community did not kill, they were somehow derelict in their duty toward society (Tr. 1176).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sloan v. Delo“While it is apparent that the point does not state 'wherein and why' the trial court erred, appellant’s arguments make clear the grounds for alleged error. Since it is this Court’s policy 'to decide cases on the merits whenever possible’ and to avoid 'punish[ingj innocent parties for the shortcomings of counsel on appeal,' ... particularly in criminal cases, we treat appellant's point of error as if properly raised.”); State v. Petterson, 780 S.W.2d 675, 677 (Mo.Ct.App.1989) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wealot v. Armontrout“prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson 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.