Duvall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Duvall v. Reynolds (1998), State v. Mease (1992)
4 federal appellate · 48 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Zant v. Stephens · Estelle v. Williams
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mitigating circumstances are those which, in fairness and mercy may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability or blame . ..”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Al-Mosawi v. State · Harjo v. State“Evidence has been offered as to the following mitigating circumstances: 1. Defendant surrendered himself; 2. Defendant informed the Sheriff of the killing and its details; 3. No law enforcement agency had previous knowledge of the death of Karla Duvall; 4. Defendant exhibited remorse; 5. Defendant cooperated with law enforcement authorities; 6. Defendant was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the incident; 7. The Defendant did not attempt to flee the jurisdiction of the State. Whether these circumstances existed, and whether these circumstances are mitigating, must be decided by you.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ladies and gentlemen, let me interrupt at this point to speak concerning the statement that you have heard that was made. That statement is introduced, not for the truth of the matter related in the statement, but only as that statement relates to the state of mind of the deceased, Karla Duvall, in relation to the defendant, John Duvall. Not for the truth of the statement, but only as it may shed light as to the state of mind of the decedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.