Deputy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), Dawson v. Delaware (1992)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 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. § 753
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deputy was not solely a participant in the underlying felony, but was instead present during, and involved in, the actual murders”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shelton v. State · Tison v. Arizona“at or after the time that adversary judicial proceedings have been initiated against him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lovett v. State · Turner v. State“(d) Determination of sentence— (1) A sentence of death itself shall not be imposed unless the jury ... finds: a. Beyond a reasonable doubt at least 1 statutory aggravating circumstance; and b. Unanimously recommends, after weighing all relevant evidence in aggravation of mitigation which bears upon particular circumstances or details of the commission of the offense and the character and propensities of the offender, that a sentence of death shall be imposed.... A finding by the jury of a statutory aggravating circumstance, and a consequent recommendation of death, supported by the evidence, shall be binding on the Court. Del.Code Ann. tit. 11, § 4209(d)(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deputy v. Taylor
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.