Buchanan v. Angelone’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
193 federal appellate · 24 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 534 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Jones v. United States (1999), Weeks v. Angelone (2000)
193 federal appellate · 24 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 18 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · 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 534 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sentencer may not be precluded from considering, and may not refuse to consider, any constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By directing the jury to base its decision on `all the evidence,' the instruction afforded jurors an opportunity to consider mitigating evidence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.”
5 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.