Romano v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
213 federal appellate · 15 district · 332 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 795 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), Jones v. United States (1999)
213 federal appellate · 15 district · 332 state decisions — followed in 31 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 · Teague v. Lane · Estelle v. McGuire · Lockett v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 795 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Supreme Court has] since read Caldwell as relevant only to certain types of comments—those that mislead the jury as to its role in the sentencing process in a way that allows the jury to feel less responsible than it should for the sentencing decision. To establish a Caldwell violation, a petitioner necessarily must show that the remarks to the jury improperly describe the role assigned the jury by local law.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Eighth Amendment does not establish a federal code of evidence to supersede state evidentiary rules”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Gall v. Parker · Kansas v. Kansas“so infected the sentencing proceeding with unfairness as to render the jury's imposition of the death penalty a denial of due process.”
6 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.