State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), Duckett v. Godinez (1995)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Saffle v. Parks · California v. Brown
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"After considering the totality of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, [the sentencing authority] must be persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt that total aggravation outweighs total mitigation, and [the sentencing authority] must further be persuaded, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the imposition of the death penalty is justified and appropriate in the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Carter“a judicial narrowing of some ... aggravating circumstances may be constitutionally necessary,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maestas“a sensitive and searching voir dire, conviction-prone persons can be weeded out”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maestas
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.