Bryan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Alvie James Hale v. Gary Gibson (2000), State v. Chasity West (2005)
10 federal appellate · 40 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Oklahoma . . . requir[es] the defendant to show that at the time of the crime he suffered from a mental disease or defect rendering him unable to differentiate between right and wrong, or unable to understand the nature and consequences of his actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impermissibly interferes with a fundamental right under Oklahoma lawthe right to be convicted, if at all, by evidence of the charged offense and not by evidence of similar offense which show a propensity to commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the phrase `the existence of a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society' is clear and does not require further definition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wackerly 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.