Spalding v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
8 state decisions
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 Pennsylvania v. Finley · Ross v. Moffitt · Petition of Graham ex rel. Nine Condemned Men v. State · Giarratano v. Murray · 467 So. 2d 698 - State ex rel. Russell v. Schaeffer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the intent of the Legislature to create [CCR] to provide for the representation of any person convicted and sentenced to death in this state who is unable to secure counsel due to indigency, so that collateral proceedings to challenge such conviction may be commenced in a timely manner and so as to assure the people of this state that the judgments of its courts may be regarded with the finality to which they are entitled in the interests of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under section 27.702, each defendant under sentence of death is entitled, as a statutory right, to effective legal representation by the capital collateral representative in all collateral relief proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“also to avoid the attendant problems of determining the need to appoint counsel and the utilization of volunteer counsel, including the resulting delays in the process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.