Cooper v. Rimmer’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.3d 655 · 2004
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
December 2007
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Negron v. United States · Griffith 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has done no more than raise the possibility that California's lethal-injection protocol risks an unconstitutional level of pain and suffering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Rimmer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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