Juniper v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Teleguz v. Com. (2007)
6 federal appellate · 68 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Albright v. Oliver · Eddings v. Oklahoma · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Com. · Morva v. Com.“[n]either the actual proffer, counsel's argument, nor [the expert's] explanations . . . was "specific to [the defendant]". . . . [The expert] offered nothing to the trial court to support his opinion as being based on [the defendant's] individual characteristics that would affect his future adaptability in prison and thus relate to a defendant-specific assessment of future dangerousness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morva v. Com. · Porter v. Com.“`other sentencing bodies in this jurisdiction generally impose the supreme penalty for comparable or similar crimes, considering both the crime and the defendant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Com. · Morva v. Com.
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.