Domingues v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
4
states following
May 2004
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stanford v. Kentucky · Melendez v. United States · United States v. Wabash Valley Power Ass'n · Domingues v. State · Edwards 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age and shall not be carried out on pregnant women.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Servin v. State · Ex Parte Pressley“"The United States reserves the right, subject to its [singular pronoun] constitutional constraints, to impose capital punishment on any person (other than a pregnant woman) duly convicted under existing or future laws permitting the imposition of capital punishment, including such punishment for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Senate's express reservation of the United States' right to impose a penalty of death on juvenile offenders negate[d] Domingues' claim that he was illegally sentenced”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.