Schick v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 1266 · 1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 858 · 10 U.S.C. § 871 · 10 U.S.C. § 876 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 952 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Furman v. Georgia · Burgett v. Texas · Jones v. Cunningham · Weems v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the Furman decision itself simply remanded the death penalty cases for further proceedings without spelling out the nature of those proceedings, all courts considering the issue have recognized that retroactive application of Furman to any given prisoner requires that the death sentence be vacated and the judgment modified to provide for the appropriate alternative punishment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zebroski 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.