502 So. 2d 409 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although the judgments of legislatures, juries, and prosecutors weigh heavily in the balance, it is for us ultimately to judge whether the Eighth Amendment permits imposition of the death penalty on one such as Enmund who aids and abets a felony in the course of which a murder is committed by others but who does not himself kill, attempt to kill, or intend that a killing take place or that lethal force will be employed. We have concluded, along with most legislatures and juries, that it does not.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 575 So. 2d 181 - Jackson v. State · 510 So. 2d 881 - Engle v. State

2. “adequate proceeding before some appropriate tribunal — be it an appellate court, a trial judge, or a jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 919 So. 2d 347 - Perez v. State · 513 So. 2d 1045 - Diaz v. State

3. “[W]hen there are one or more valid aggravating factors and none in mitigation, death is presumed to be the appropriate penalty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 513 So. 2d 1045 - Diaz v. State