Dukette v. Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2011
3 district · 4 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright · Simmons v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jackson v. Denno
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he risk is equally intolerable in this case. Jury instructions which inevitably enhance the risk of unwarranted convictions have never been tolerated in our system of jurisprudence.... The fact that defendants in capital cases are afforded additional constitutional protections in no way diminishes the importance of the fundamental constitutional rights accorded all defendants in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nadworny v. Fair
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.