Bagley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
February 1984
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Hernandez v. State · Wilson v. State · Maxwell v. Bishop
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The damage could have been removed only by an equally positive statement of correction. The court’s statement that extenuating circumstances must be produced to avoid the death penalty was clear and unequivocal; only a corrected statement of equal stature could have erased it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. State
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.