Brice v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Gales (2003), 855 So. 2d 33 - Duest v. State (2003)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Fulminante · Furman 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder [California's] scheme, a person convicted of first-degree murder is sentenced to life imprisonment unless one or more `special circumstances' are found, in which case the punishment is either death or life imprisonment without parole. . . . The trial judge then reviews the evidence and, in light of the statutory factors, makes an `independent determination as to whether the weight of the evidence supports the jury's findings and verdicts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritchie v. State“[I]f the existence of at least 1 statutory aggravating circumstance . . . has been found beyond a reasonable doubt by the jury, the Court . . . shall impose a sentence of death if the Court finds by a preponderance of the evidence . . . that the aggravating circumstances . . . outweigh the mitigating circumstances found by the Court to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritchie v. State“transformed the jury's role, at the so-called narrowing phase, from one that was advisory under the [pre- Ring version of the statute] into one that is now determinative as to the existence of any statutory aggravating circumstances”
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.