Piper v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2023
12 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
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Gregg v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona · Woodson v. North Carolina · Cunningham v. California
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The penalty of death is qualitatively different from a sentence of imprisonment, however long. Death, in its finality, differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year prison term differs from one of only a year or two.’ Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 305 , 96 S.Ct. 2978, 2991 , 49 L.Ed.2d 944 (1976). 'The qualitative difference of death from all other punishments requires a correspondingly greater degree of scrutiny of the capital sentencing determination.' California v. Ramos, 463 U.S. 992, 998-99 , 103 S.Ct. 3446, 3452 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1171 (1983)”). 10 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robert
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.