Castro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Castro v. Ward (1998), Malone v. State (1994)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court has recently held that Mills is not applicable under Oklahoma law. In the case at bar, the jury was not instructed that it must unanimously agree on the mitigating circumstances. We also find that to require the'jury to memorialize that which it considers to be mitigation would run afoul of Mills; a reasonable juror could interpret that requirement to be that each mitigating circumstance had to be unanimous as is required for the •aggravators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castro v. Ward
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.