John Thomas Drayden v. Theo White, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.3d 704 · 2000
Citation profile
64
cited by 64 later decisions
4
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Slack v. McDaniel · Arizona v. Fulminante · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
Most-quoted passages
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“[he] inappropriately obscured the fact that his role is to vindicate the public's interest in punishing crime, not to exact revenge on behalf of an individual victim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had delivered exactly the same speech in the third person, it would have been proper.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when manner-of-killing evidence strongly suggests premeditation and deliberation, that evidence is enough, by itself, to sustain a conviction for first-degree murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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