Mason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (2000), Santellan v. State (1997)
79 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Penry v. Lynaugh · Jurek v. Texas
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Constitution does not erect a per se barrier to the admission of evidence concerning one's beliefs ... at sentencing merely because those beliefs ... are protected by the First Amendment. Such evidence may be admissible if it is shown to be relevant to the issues involved in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beham v. State““restrain[t of] a person with intent to prevent his liberation by: (A) secreting or holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found; or (B) using or threatening to use deadly force.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Franks v. State“Challenges which are not based upon any ground specifically enumerated in the statutes are ordinarily addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morales
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.