Barber v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
September 2005
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scharffe v. Perkins · Jones v. Howard · Stringer v. Black · Bottoson v. Florida · First National Bank v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to guarantee the precision that individualized sentencing considerations demand and provide a principled explanation for our conclusion in each ease, it is important, when conducting harmless error review, to completely examine the record for the presence of factors which potentially influence the sentence ultimately imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Irick v. State“beyond a reasonable doubt that the sentence would have been the same had the jury given no weight to the invalid felony murder aggravating factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sample 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.