Perillo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Prejean v. Blackburn (1989), Cantu v. State (1992)
33 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Wainwright v. Witt · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Op. at p. 851. He never denied being able to answer the second special issue. He did make clear, however, that his moral aversion to the death penalty might cause him to hold the State to what amounts to an impossible burden of proof. This, in combination with his earlier uncertainty whether he could set aside his opposition to the death penalty and honestly answer the questions, provides adequate support for the trial court's action in granting the state's challenge for cause. But I fail to perceive how Boling”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. State“Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any statement which contains assertions of facts or circumstances that are found to be true and which conduce to establish the guilt of the accused, such as the finding of secreted or stolen property or the instrument with which he states the offense was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson 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.