Dobbs v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), Alberto Valdez v. Janie Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division - (2001)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDobbs v. Zant (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Gardner v. Florida · Anderson v. Harless · Cherek 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I am willing to make an exception from that [previously stated `general' internal] rule in capital cases — but only where there is a realistic likelihood that the `technical error' affected the conviction or the sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“emphasized the importance of reviewing capital sentences on a complete record,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have emphasized before the importance of reviewing capital sentences on a complete record.... [R]efusal to review the transcript [which was previously unavailable] left [the court of appeals] unable to apply the manifest injustice exception to .the law of the case doctrine, and hence unable to determine whether its prior decision should be reconsidered.”). 63 . See Wright et al., supra note 49 , at 683-84 (discussing the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wright
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.