Tuilaepa v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
224 federal appellate · 59 district · 585 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,276 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Jones v. United States (1999), State v. Gumm (1995)
224 federal appellate · 59 district · 585 state decisions — followed in 30 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 · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · Zant v. Stephens · Gregg v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona · Jurek v. Texas
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 1,276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the aggravating circumstance may not be unconstitutionally vague.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A capital sentencer need not be instructed how to weigh any particular fact in the capital sentencing decision.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'common-sense core of meaning ... that criminal juries should be capable of understanding.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.