Cudjo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Duvall v. Reynolds (1998), Phillips v. State (1999)
13 federal appellate · 11 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Maynard v. Cartwright · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · San Vicente Medical Partners, Ltd. v. Orr
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond the scope of the act of killing itself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The only legitimate concern being whether each jury member will consider the imposition of the death sentence, as one of the alternatives provided by state law, should the case be appropriate for that punishment.”) (citing Duvall). Under our Uniform Jury Instructions, the trial court is instructed to ask each prospective capital juror the following question:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State · Miller v. State“Appellant's criminal history does not support the finding of this aggravating circumstance. Although Appellant had admittedly burglarized the grocery store on prior occasions, these unadjudicated burglaries appear to have amounted to nothing more than petty thefts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa 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.