Hooker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Turrentine v. Mullin (2004), Le v. Mullin (2002)
8 federal appellate · 33 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“killing more than one person is sufficient to support this aggravating circumstance,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“great risk of death to more than one person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In [Mr.] Hooker’s case, the evidence supports a finding that the deaths of [Ms.] Morgan and [Ms.] Stokes were preceded by torture or physical abuse. Both women were stabbed a number of times; both women lived for one to ten minutes before dying; [Ms.] Stokes sustained defensive wounds; and there was evidence that a physical struggle had occurred in the apartment. The evidence shows conscious physical suffering sufficient to support this aggravating circumstance!”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hooker v. Mullin
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.