Dearman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Valdez v. State (2008), Deutscher v. State (1979)
59 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 Kuk v. State · Moser v. State · Pacheco v. State · Theriault v. State · Scott 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ntent to kill ... may be ascertained or deduced from the facts and circumstances of the killing, such as use of a weapon calculated to produce death, the manner of use, and the attendant circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sharma v. State · Cloman 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.