Dobbert v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.2d 1518 · 1983
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably McCray v. Abrams (1984), Raulerson v. Wainwright (1984)
35 federal appellate · 10 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the sentencing order does not refer to the specific types of non-statutory 'mitigating' evidence petitioner introduced indicates only the trial court's finding the evidence was not mitigating, not that such evidence was not considered.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a state court clearly and correctly applies a procedural default rule, Sykes requires the federal court to abide by the state court's decision even though the state court discusses the merits as an alternate ground for rejecting a claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our analysis of the record reveals that both the order of the trial court and the decision of the Florida Supreme Court reflect consideration of all mitigating evidence put on by Dobbert, statutory and nonstatutory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Risley
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.