Mines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010
11 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Penry v. Lynaugh · Jurek v. Texas · Cantu 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Where the evidence presented by defendant’s witnesses faded to show a connection between the events they described and the commission of the crime, then that “evidence is not relevant, beyond the scope of the special issues, to the jury’s individualized assessment of Appellant’s moral culpability for the crime.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the circumstances of the offense which tends to excuse or explain the commission of the offense, suggesting that [he] is less deserving of a death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mines 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.