Henry v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 56 · 1981
Citation profile
52
cited by 52 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
November 1988
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Proffitt v. Florida · Padilla-Martinez v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By sanctioning consideration of statutory aggravating factors plus anything else the jury determines to be aggravating, such an instruction broadens jury discretion rather than channels it and obscures any meaningful basis for distinguishing cases in which the death penalty is imposed from those in which it is not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““In considering aggravating circumstances, you shall consider all factors which are aggravating, including, but not limited to, the following * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no danger that the unauthorized (aggravating) factor tipped the scale in favor of death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.