Lenhard v. Wolff a-172’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Whitmore v. Arkansas (1990), Godfrey v. Georgia (1980)
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Faretta v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Williams v. People of State of New York · 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the procedure the Court approves today amounts to nothing less than state-administered suicide.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“today the Court grants a man’s wish to be put to death even though the sentencing hearing accorded to him failed to comply with the procedural requirements imposed by the prior decisions of this Court____ Society is not powerless ... to resist a defendant’s effort to prompt the exercise of capital force____ Bishop’s diligent and conscientious attorneys, who were appointed at trial to represent his interests, are quite capable of litigating the Eighth Amendment questions involved in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the consent of a convicted defendant in a criminal case does not privilege a State to impose a punishment otherwise forbidden by the Eighth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hammett v. Texas
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.