Bolender v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 2001
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Gardner v. Florida · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Scharffe v. Perkins · Maynard v. Cartwright
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.
“[t]he state established corpus delicti in this case, the quoted statement merely recited the obvious, and the instructions did not direct a verdict for the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]abeas corpus is not to be used to relitigate issues determined in a prior appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fully considered the propriety of Bolender's sentences on direct appeal”
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.