Schiro v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003 · most notably Schiro Farley Superintendent Indiana State Prison et al (1994), Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford (1988)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Beck v. Alabama · Enmund v. Florida
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has emphasized that a sentence of death must reflect an ethical judgment about the `moral guilt' of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Summerlin v. Stewart“effectively insulates the sentence from meaningful review,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Spranger v. State
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.