Yates v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 4 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Penry v. Lynaugh (1989)
87 federal appellate · 4 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. As Justice Harlan eloquently explained: 50 The theory that the habeas petitioner is entitled to the law prevailing at the time of his conviction is, however, one which is more complex than the Court has seemingly recognized. First, it is necessary to determine whether a particular decision has really announced a”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Penry v. Lynaugh · Sawyer v. Butler“the Due Process Clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was merely an application of the principle that governed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Penry v. Lynaugh · Teague v. Lane
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.