State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Storey (1995)
3 federal appellate · 188 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Edwards v. Arizona
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you do not find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, you must consider whether he is guilty of murder in the second degree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carson · State v. Smulls“[p]roportionality review 'merely provides a backstop against the freakish and wanton application of the death penalty.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Deck · Bannister v. Delo“INSTRUCTION NO. 6 In determining the punishment to be assessed against Brown for the murder of Janet Perkins, you must first unanimously determine whether one or more of the following aggravating circumstances exists: Whether Brown was convicted of Assault and Battery With the Intent To Gratify Sexual Desires on June 28,1973 in the Criminal Court of Marion County of Indiana. Whether the murder of Janet Perkins involved torture or depravity of mind and that as a result thereof it was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman. Whether the murder of Janet Perkins was committed for the purpose avoiding, interfering with, or preventing a lawful arrest or custody in a place of lawful confinement of Brown. Whether Janet Perkins was a potential witness in the investigation of an assault of Janet Perkins and was killed as a result of her status as a potential witness. Whether the murder of Janet Perkins was committed while the defendant was engaged in the perpetration of or the attempt to perpetrate rape, sodomy or kidnapping. [[Image here]] ... if you do not unanimously find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that at least one of the foregoing circumstances exists, you must return a verdict fixing punishment of the defendant at imprisonment for life by the Division of Corrections without eligibility for probation or parole. INSTRUCTION NO. 7 If you have found beyond a reasonable doubt that one or more of the aggravating circumstances submitted in Instruction No. 6 ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Brown
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.