Jackson v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.2d 573 · 1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles · Weems v. United States · Leland v. Oregon
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever the arguments may be against capital punishment, both on moral grounds and in terms of accomplishing the purposes of punishment — and they are forceful — the death penalty has been employed throughout our history, and, in a day when it is still widely accepted, it cannot be said to violate the constitutional concept of cruelty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Eyman““A long series of decisions of the Supreme Court has held or stated that the death penalty, as such, is neither cruel nor unusual. * * * ” [Cases cited.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boggs
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.