Jurek v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
562 federal appellate · 86 district · 1,632 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,219 later decisions (196 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Lockett v. Ohio (1978)
562 federal appellate · 86 district · 1,632 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Proffitt v. Florida
Cited together with Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Proffitt v. Florida
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 3,219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hat is essential is that the jury have before it all possible relevant information about the individual defendant whose fate it must determine.”
205 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'common-sense core of meaning ... that criminal juries should be capable of understanding.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“focus[ed] the jury's attention on the particularized nature of the crime and the particularized characteristics of the individual defendant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.