Snow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Cargle v. State (1995)
7 federal appellate · 47 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 Strickland v. Washington · Manson v. Brathwaite · Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who does not appreciate the gravity of taking another's life is more likely to do so again.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hain v. State · Wackerly v. State“close proximity in terms of time, location and intent to the act of the killing itself”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State · Hanson v. State“[the defendant's attitude is critical to the determination of whether this defendant poses a continuing threat to society [because al defendant who does not appreciate the gravity of taking another's life is more likely to do so again”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wackerly v. State · Magnan 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.