Griffin v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “quit school at 16, and had a serious drinking problem; test results pointed to schizophrenia and other disorders; ... his parents were severe alcoholics who drank constantly; there was no expression of parental love, affection or approval, only yelling and verbal and physical abuse; ... his mother went missing frequently for several weeks at a time; and he suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome); Wiggins , 539 U.S. at 535 [ 123 S.Ct. 2527 ] (petitioner suffered”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Laux v. Zatecky

2. “physical torment, sexual molestation, rape in foster care, homelessness, and diminished mental capacities ...); Williams , 529 U.S. at 395-96 [ 120 S.Ct. 1495 ] (mitigation evidence included records of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Laux v. Zatecky

3. “childhoods of those petitioners: Rompilla v. Beard , 545 U.S. 374 , 390-93 [ 125 S.Ct. 2456 , 162 L.Ed.2d 360 ] (2005) (mitigation case built on evidence that petitioner was raised in a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Laux v. Zatecky