Eutzy v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Lambrix v. Singletary (1997), Boyd v. North Carolina (1985)
6 federal appellate · 56 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
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Barefoot v. Estelle · Jurek v. Texas
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]itigating circumstances must, in some way, ameliorate the enormity of the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.