Turner v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 292 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 232 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Bannister (2008), Woodfox v. Cain (2010)
13 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Coleman v. Thompson · Ring v. Arizona
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant argues ... Article 37.071 is unconstitutional because the aggravating factors used in the statute are vague and do not properly channel the sentencer’s discretion. Specifically, appellant asserts that the terms “probability,” “criminal acts of violence,” and “continuing threat to society” should be defined. This Court has previously decided this claim adversely to appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sprouse v. Stephens“consider issues that are not adequately briefed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.