Duvall v. Keating’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 1058 · 1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2017
5 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Salve Regina College v. Russell · Evitts v. Lucey · Herrera v. Collins · Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat · Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because clemency proceedings involve acts of mercy that are not constitutionally required, the minimal application of the Due Process Clause only ensures a death row prisoner that he or she will receive procedures explicitly set forth by state law, and that the procedure followed in rendering the clemency decision will not be wholly arbitrary, capricious or based upon whim, for example, flipping a coin.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Winfield v. Steele · Bacon v. Lee“some minimal procedural safeguards apply to clemency proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.