Jackson v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 571 · 1968
Citation profile
183 federal appellate · 45 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 400 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Estelle v. Gamble (1976), Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
183 federal appellate · 45 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles · Price v. Johnston
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 400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broad and idealistic concepts of dignity, civilized standards, humanity and decency. . . .”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Humane considerations and constitutional requirements are not, in this day, to be measured or limited by dollar considerations.”
10 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.