Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Nguyen v. Reynolds B (1997), Bland v. Sirmons (2006)
5 federal appellate · 64 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Furman v. Georgia · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as well as other relevant conduct relating to the safety of society as a whole”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Valdez v. State · Scott v. State“present sufficient evidence concerning prior convictions or unadjudicated crimes to show a pattern of criminal conduct that will likely continue in the future”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ochoa v. State · Humphreys v. State“"It is beyond dispute that the trial court must instruct the jury on every degree of homicide where the evidence would permit the jury rationally to find the accused guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater." Shrum, 1999 OK CR 41 , ¶ 6 n. 2, 991 P.2d 1032 , 1034 n. 2. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.