Broxton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Ladd v. State (1999), Cantu v. State (1997)
3 federal appellate · 103 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Soberon v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · United States v. Alaska
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background, and the personal moral culpability of the defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State“An objection stating one legal theory may not be used to support a different legal theory on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon v. State“[E]ven constitutional errors may be waived by failure to object at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.