Carpenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2024
1 federal appellate · 16 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 · Boykin v. Alabama · Payne v. Tennessee · Spuehler v. State · Mayes 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether there was sufficient evidence from which a rational sen-tencer could find that the balance of aggravating and mitigating cireumstances warranted a death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malone v. State“The decision to allow the withdrawal of a plea is within the sound discretion of the trial court and we will not interfere unless we find an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tate v. State“whether the Information gives the defendant notice of the charges against him and apprises him of what he must defend against at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.