576 So. 2d 713 - Meeks v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2018
1 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Gardner v. Florida · Skipper v. South Carolina
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.
“whether the Hitchcock error was harmless. In the event the court decides that the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, the sentences of death should be set aside and new sentencing proceedings conducted before separate juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meeks v. Moore“[a]t the penalty phase of both [the Thompson and Walker ] trials, the jurors were instructed to consider only those mitigating circumstances enumerated in [the Florida statute].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meeks v. Moore
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.