King v. Sw Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 280 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
8 federal appellate · 4 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Swain v. State of Alabama · McCleskey v. Kemp · Brewster v. Derwinski
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the failure to offer mitigating evidence in the form of King's diminished mental capacity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I deal with criminal cases every week . . . [and] I don't ask for the death penalty in every case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I want this country to know that we're not going to tolerate [those who commit capital crimes]”
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.