Allridge v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 213 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999), United States v. Flores (1995)
26 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Teague v. Lane · Penry v. Lynaugh · Beck v. Alabama
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our reading of Beck and Schad instructs us that the trial court was not constitutionally bound to provide a wider menu of jury instructions. Instead, because the jury had the viable option to choose murder over capital murder, we are satisfied that the option ensured the reliability of the jury's capital murder verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Specifically, if we were to conclude...that due process entitles a capital defendant to introduce evidence of parole ineligibility whenever the state argues the defendant is a future danger, regardless of whether the state statutorily provides for parole ineligibility, such a conclusion certainly would constitute a 'new rule' and therefore would be barred under Teague.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“due process requires the state to inform a sentencing jury about a defendant's parole ineligibility when, and only when, (1) the state argues that a defendant represents a future danger to society, and (2) the defendant is legally ineligible for parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Johnson
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.