337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), Beck v. Alabama (1980)
7 federal appellate · 161 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Furman v. Georgia · Brown v. Illinois
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make a special finding of any mitigating circumstance in order to return a verdict that the accused should be sentenced to life in prison.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Washington v. State · Hill v. State“should only be given after the trial court has carefully considered the evidence and is of the opinion that such an instruction is justified by the evidence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“with or without any design to effect death”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.