Willis v. Balkcom, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
November 1983
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only the trier of fact may impose a death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zant v. Stephens
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.