Cargle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006)
14 federal appellate · 76 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Gregg v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“financial, emotional, psychological, and physical effects,”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lott v. Trammell · Hammon v. State“[V]ictim impact evidence should be restricted to those unique characteristics which define the individual who has died, the contemporaneous and prospective circumstances surrounding that death, and how those circumstances have financially, emotionally, psychologically, and physically impacted on members of the victim's immediate family.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mollett v. State · Grant v. State“it is so unduly prejudicial that it renders the trial fundamentally unfair....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Lott 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.