Jeffers v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 411 · 1994
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 43 - People v. Snow (2003), Ortiz v. Stewart (1998)
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Ake v. Oklahoma · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile it is important that the record on appeal disclose to the reviewing court the considerations which motivated the death sentence . . . due process does not require that the sentencer exhaustively document its analysis of each mitigating factor as long as a reviewing federal court can discern from the record that the state court did indeed consider all mitigating evidence offered by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Spreitz v. Ryan · Lopez v. Schriro“[T]he trial court is not required to `itemize and discuss every piece of evidence offered in mitigation' . . . [so long as it makes] clear to the reviewing court that the sentencing court considered all relevant mitigating evidence that was offered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A trial court is not restricted in its sentencing to the terms of a rejected plea offer.”
2 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.