Beasley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Jones v. State (1996), Pondexter v. State (1996)
42 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 141 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Smith · Grunsfeld v. State · Murphy v. State · Harris v. State · Miller-El v. State
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.
“[[Image here]] [EJvidenee may be offered by the state and the defendant as to any matter the court deems relevant to sentencing, including but not limited to the prior criminal record of the defendant, his general reputation, his character, an opinion regarding his character, the circumstances of the offense for which he is being tried....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) provided evidence of the defendant’s membership in the gang; (2) provided evidence of the character and reputation of the gang; (3) not required to determine if the defendant committed the acts of misconduct committed by the gang; and (4) asked to consider the reputation or character of only the accused. 9”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is essential for the jury to know the types of activities the gang generally engages in so that they can determine if his gang membership is a positive or negative aspect of his character, and subsequently his character as a whole. Only after the jury has been provided with this information can there be a fair evaluation of how gang membership reflects on the gang member’s character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.