Corn v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1983
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Schmerber v. State of California · Lockett v. Ohio · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Hawes v. State
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.
“Viewing the court's sentencing charge as a whole, we find that the jury was instructed to decide on their sentence from the evidence and law presented at the sentencing hearing, taking the full responsibility of determining life or death for the defendant. No remarks by the court could be construed as encouraging the jury to attach diminished consequences to their verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corn v. Zant
How this case has been treated — in progress
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