Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999), Jack Dale Walker v. Gary Gibson (2000)
7 federal appellate · 24 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 · Furman v. Georgia · McCarthy v. United States · Miller v. Florida · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] proof of adequate provocation, [2] the existence of a strong passion or an emotion such as anger, rage or resentment, [3] the lack of reasonable opportunity for the cooling of the passion and [4] a causal connection between the provocation, the passion and the homicide.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has long been recognized that a system of capital punishment must meet strict constitutional requirements to be upheld. The primary goal of any such system must be the allowance of individualized sentencing tempered by a controlled amount of discretion, exercisable by the trier of fact ... In the present case, we are presented by a situation where the sentence did not fully understand the options available, thus rather than the more usual case involving "unbridled discretion," we have just the opposite. The trial court committed no less an error; however, when it took such a restricted view of its sentencing options that it failed to allow Petitioner the full benefit of all the sentences provided by law. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“It has long been recognized that a system of capital punishment must meet strict constitutional requirements to be upheld. The primary goal of any such system must be the allowance of individualized sentencing tempered by a controlled amount of discretion, exercisable by the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hain 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.