Comer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2012
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffith v. United States · Bacher v. State · Carter v. State · McCann v. State · Ludy v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot say with confidence that the trial court would have imposed the same sentence if it considered [only] the proper aggravating and mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flickner v. State“[olur courts frequently hold that a single aggravating circumstance may be sufficient to support the imposition of an enhanced sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flickner v. State“Nor is the court required to give the same weight to proffered mitigating factors as the defendant does.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flickner 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.