Young v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 792 · 1982
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 367 - People v. Wright (1990), Scarpa v. Dubois (1994)
44 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Bonner v. City of Prichard · McMann v. Richardson · Baty v. Balkcom
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even a modicum of professional assistance at any time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Georgia · Stanley v. Zant“unsupportable defense to all counts and ignored [several] obvious defenses ... he conceded his client’s guilt of all three crimes for which he was charged in the guilt phase of the trial; and he did so because of his mistaken belief that such an action was strategically necessary in order to make a strong plea for mercy. Whether, on the facts of this case, such a tactical decision would have been proper under the former Georgia criminal procedure, which Garland still believed to be in effect, we can discern no possible reason for this conduct under the present bifurcated procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horton v. Zant“indicating that the state would again seek the death penalty. The notice stated that the two aggravating circumstances alleged in Young's first trial would again serve as bases for the imposition of the death penalty. In addition, the notice indicated that the state would seek to submit to the jury a third aggravating circumstance: that the murder was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Kemp
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.