State v. Caughron’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Bland (1997), State v. Howell (1993)
39 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockhart v. McCree · Godfrey v. Georgia · Jencks 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“12. The death penalty statute allows the State to make final closing arguments to the jury in the penalty phase in violation- of the defendant’s right to due process of law and effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 8 and 9 of the Tennessee Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thacker“Every person is presumed competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided in these rules or by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Howard
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.