State v. Storey’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Tokar (1996), Deck v. State (2002)
6 federal appellate · 176 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 · Berger v. United States · Wainwright v. Witt · Zafiro v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hose life is more important to you? Whose life has more value? The Defendant or [the victim's]?”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kenley · Deck v. State“Think for just this moment. Try to put yourselves in [the victim]’s place. Can you imagine? And, then — and then, to have your head yanked back by its hair and to feel the blade of that knife slicing through your flesh, severing your vocal cords, wanting to scream out in terror, but not being able to. Trying to breathe, but not being able to for the blood pouring down into your esophagus.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Deck · State v. McFadden“I want you to think about that guy right there in the front row, [the victim’s brother], What if he had happened onto this brutal thing and seen his very close sister in the process of [being] murdered? Would he have been justified in taking the Defendant’s life? Yes. Without question. Without question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kreutzer · Deck 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.