Atkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Standefer v. State (2001), Raby v. State (1998)
32 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 National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Dennis v. Dennis · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Liteky v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Would you be able to] consider the penalty of confinement for life if it were proved that the defendant went into a store, attempted to rob it or robbed it, aimed a pistol at a woman’s head at short range and shot her, killing her instantly, and if the woman’s husband testified to that?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Raby v. State“... If the evidence, in a hypothetical case, showed that a person was arrested and they had a crack pipe in their pocket, and they had a residue amount in it, and it could be measured, and it could be seen, is there anyone who could not convict a person, based on that ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raby v. State“To constitute an abuse of discretion, the trial court's voir dire limitation must render the defendant's trial fundamentally unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sandoval 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.