Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 469 U.S. 894 - Eddmonds v. Illinois

Eddmonds v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

63
cited by 63 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2014
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 49 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), 123 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Spreitzer (1988)

11 federal appellate · 49 state decisions

5001984199020002010decided

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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Pulley v. Harris · Cryts v. French

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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he selection process for the imposition of the death penalty does not begin at trial; it begins in the prosecutor's office. His decision whether or not to seek capital punishment is no less important than the jury's. Just like the jury, then, where death is the consequence, the prosecutor's `discretion must be suitably directed and limited so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 119 Ill. 2d 119 - People v. Johnson
  2. “there are serious questions about the constitutionality of a scheme that gives the prosecutor the unbridled discretion to select, from the group of individuals convicted of an offense punishable by death, the subgroup that will be considered for death”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 119 Ill. 2d 119 - People 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.