Shuman v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
June 1988
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Harrington v. California
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only serves to give the imposition of the death sentence the air of arbitrariness and caprice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sumner v. Shuman
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.