Young v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Burks v. United States · Abney v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not that there was insufficient evidence to support the death sentence but rather that the evidence was not sufficient to support the death penalty based on the particular aggravating circumstances relied on by the district attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Kemp“outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Kemp
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.