Stephens v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Vincent v. Louisiana (1985), Collins v. State (1990)
21 federal appellate · 40 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. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Gault · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is at the very least a substantial question whether [the petitioner's] fate should be governed by the outcome of the consolidated cases that are now pending before the Eleventh Circuit en banc. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Due process of law ... does not allow a hearing to be held . without giving [petitioners] timely notice, in advance of the hearing, of the specific issues that they must meet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“all parties shall be given reasonable opportunity to present all material made pertinent to such a motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Vincent v. Louisiana
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.