Styers v. Schriro’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.3d 1026 · 2008
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably McKinney v. Ryan (2015), Clabourne v. Ryan (2014)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Petitioner’s Writ of Habeas Corpus as to his sentence of death is granted unless the State of Arizona, within 120 days from entry of this Judgment, initiates proceedings either to correct the constitutional error in Petitioner’s death sentence or to vacate the sentence and impose a lesser sentence consistent with the law. 3”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Just as the State may not by statute preclude the sentencer from considering any mitigating factor, neither may the sentencer refuse to consider, as a matter of law, any relevant mitigating evidence .... The sentencer, and the Court of Criminal Appeals on review, may determine the weight to be given relevant mitigating evidence. But they may not give it no weight by excluding such evidence from their consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poyson v. Ryan · Poyson v. Ryan“affirm[ed] the district court on all counts, except Styers' claim that the Arizona Supreme Court failed to fulfill its obligations under Clemons v. Mississippi ,”
1 later decision 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.