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← 140 SCT 353 - Barr v. Roane

Barr v. Roane’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
November 2020
most recently cited

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3596 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “in light of what is at stake, it would be preferable for the District Court's decision to be reviewed on the merits by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit before the executions are carried out.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “manner prescribed by the law of the State”
    1 later decision 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.