Hall v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
572 U.S. 701 · 2014
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably Jones v. Mississippi (2021), Shoop v. Hill (2019)
14 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 3596 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Atkins v. Virginia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant's IQ test score falls within the test's acknowledged and inherent margin of error, the defendant must be able to present additional evidence of intellectual disability, including testimony regarding adaptive deficits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pizzuto v. Blades · In re Bowles“[t]he clinical definitions of intellectual disability ... were a fundamental premise of Atkins " and that " Atkins did not give the States unfettered discretion to define the full scope of the constitutional protection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Atkins ... provide[s] substantial guidance on the definition of intellectual disability,”
3 later decisions 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.