Jones v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 878 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2013
13 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Coleman v. Thompson · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a prototypical example of “actual innocence” is the case where the State has convicted the wrong person of the crime, one is also actually innocent if the State has the “right" person but he is not guilty of the crime with which he is charged. Should [petitioner’s] contention that he could not deliberate prove true, .he would have been incapable of satisfying an essential element of the crime for which he was convicted. This meets the definition of actual innocence. Although [petitioner] is responsible for the victim’s death in the sense that he was the causative agent that inflicted the mortal wounds, his alleged incapacity to form the predicate deliberative intent, without which he could not have been found guilty of capital murder, differentiates his claim from'one of mere legal innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“negation of an element of the offense accord[ed] with the strictest definition of actual innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo
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.