Tucker v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 276 · 1997
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Trevino v. Johnson (1999), Emery v. Johnson (1997)
13 federal appellate ·
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 · Murray v. Carrier · Lindh v. Murphy · Penry v. Lynaugh · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike Eenry’s mental retardation and childhood abuse, 'voluntary intoxication is not the kind of uniquely severe permanent handicapO with which the defendant was burdened through no fault of his own that requires a special instruction to ensure that the mitigating effect of such evidence finds expression in the jury’s sentencing decision.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]elf-inflicted chronic drug and alcohol abuse and the resulting arrested emotional development do not constitute a unique handicap ‘with which the defendant was burdened through no fault of his own.' ”). 3 . The first special issue reads as follows;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'do[ ] not conflict with Lindh 's conclusion that the chapter 153 amendments do not apply retroactively.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emery v. Johnson
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.