Smith v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 956 · 1994
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Rose v. Lee (2001), Coe v. Bell (1998)
57 federal appellate · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]pon a previous appeal the defendant was in a position to adequately raise the ground or issue underlying the present motion but did not do so”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. French · Fisher v. Lee“[O]nly constitutional harmless-error analysis or reweighing at the trial level suffices to guarantee that the defendant received an individualized sentence. Where the death sentence has been infected by a vague or otherwise constitutionally invalid aggravating factor, the state appellate court or some other state sentencer must actually perform a new sentencing calculus, if the sentence is to stand”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. William H. Flamer v. State of Delaware Darl Chaffinch Raymond Callaway Harold K. Brode William H. Porter Gary A. Myers Loren C. Meyers Dana Reed James E. Liguori Charles M. Oberly, III Walter Redman Stanley W. Taylor, Acting Warden Warden Robert Snyder William Henry Flamer, Billie Bailey v. Robert Snyder, Warden, Delaware Correctional Center · Williams v. Clarke
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.