Pitsonbarger v. Gramley’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 1293 · 1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), Hall v. Washington (1997)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 4 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Ornelas v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“IT IS ALSO AGREED that if Jimmy Pitsonbarger receives any sentence providing less than death in Missouri and the death sentence in Illinois is vacated, commuted, or otherwise permanently eliminated, he will be returned to Nevada to serve his life without possibility of parole. If one death sentence remains in effect, Jimmy Pitson-barger will be housed in whatever state has said sentence in effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Request for Disposition of Indictments, Informations or Complaints,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that but for constitutional error, no reasonable fact finder would have found the applicant guilty of the underlying offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spreitzer v. Peters
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.