Hildwin v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 24 district · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 287 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998)
41 federal appellate · 24 district · 169 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Caldwell v. Mississippi · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Alexander v. United States · Spaziano 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 287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Sixth Amendment does not require that the specific findings authorizing the imposition of the sentence of death be made by the jury.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no Sixth Amendment right to jury sentencing, even where the sentence turns on specific findings of fact.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his case presents us once again with the question whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to specify the aggravating factors that permit the imposition of capital punishment in Florida,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.