Sterling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Rousseau v. State (1993), Dowthitt v. State (1996)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Wong Sun v. United States · Michigan v. Mosley · Rideout v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he jury in a capital murder case is responsible for answering questions the result of which will determine the life or death of an individual. Any information that is given the jury which may be interpreted by it as relieving that responsibility is considered an infraction upon their fact-finding function.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. State“(1) summation of the evidence; (2) reasonable deduction from the evidence; (3) answer to opposing counsel’s argument; and (4) plea for law enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“run across ... a more violent mass murderer than Gary Sterling,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sterling v. Scott
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.