State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Skipper v. South Carolina · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Schlossberg v. Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury · Austin v. Tennessee · Koskela v. King County
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although victim impact evidence is admissible, such evidence generally should be limited to information designed to show those unique characteristics which provide a brief glimpse into the life of the individual who has been killed, the contemporaneous and prospective circumstances surrounding the individual’s death, and how those circumstances financially, emotionally, psychologically or physically impacted upon members of the victim’s immediate family.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thacker
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.