Selsor v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.3d 984 · 2011
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia · Brecht v. Abrahamson · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the only case in which the jury did not find either [of these] aggravator[s], the two victim statements 'did not expressly refer to the defendant being put to death; instead, they both simply stated without embellishment that they agreed with the prosecution's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Underwood v. Royal“Lastly, the jury was properly instructed on the use of mitigating evidence and its role in the sentencing deliberations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Underwood v. Royal
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.