Drennon v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 1204 · 1981
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hicks v. Oklahoma · Mabry v. Klimas · Thigpen v. State · Drennon v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he extent of [an] appellant's constitutional right to be sentenced by a jury turns on the extent to which the Oklahoma state legislature has created such a right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swart v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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