Baldwin v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 942 · 1981
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Washington v. Strickland (1982), Ford v. Strickland (1983)
59 federal appellate · 8 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“blindly accept speculative and inconcrete claims”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The first forms reads—the first form of the verdict reads: ‘Having found the below listed statutory aggravating circumstances or circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt and, after consideration of the mitigating circumstances offered, the jury recommends the the defendant be sentenced to death.’ In the event that you unanimously decide the death penalty should be imposed, a space is provided to write out the statutory aggravating circumstance or circumstances you unanimously find to exist. The Foreperson must sign the form. The second form of the verdict reads: ‘The jury unanimously recommends that the defendant be sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence.’ If the jury decides that a life sentence without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence should be imposed, the Foreperson need only sign that form of verdict. No listing of aggravating or mitigating circumstances is required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prejean v. Blackburn“The jury's combined findings in the guilt and sentencing portions of the trial permitted the imposition of the death penalty on appellant. The aggravating circumstance that led them to the imposition of this punishment existed regardless of when the jury was instructed to consider it, and it was necessarily a part of their determination of guilt. 653 F.2d at 952 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.