Rudolph v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 9 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968), Furman v. Georgia (1972)
100 federal appellate · 9 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 · Lambert v. People of the State of California
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit the imposition of the death penalty on a convicted rapist who has neither taken nor endangered human life”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“standards of decency more or less universally accepted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jackson v. Bishop“seem relevant and worthy of . . . consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Collins
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.