Delo v. Lashley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Odom (1996)
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 75 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLashley v. Armontrout (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Malloy v. Hogan · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“operates at the guilt phase of a trial to remind the jury that the State has the burden of establishing every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“' that the jury will convict based on something other than the State's lawful evidence, proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have said that to comply with due process state trial courts need to give jury instructions in capital cases only if the evidence so warrants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.