Sonnier v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 401 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Griffin v. Texas (1984), Johnson v. State (1985)
25 federal appellate · 5 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 Haines v. Kerner · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Stone v. Powell · Swain v. State of Alabama · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conduct by the prosecutor during his rebuttal argument in Petitioner’s second sentencing proceeding was so egregious that it rendered that proceeding fundamentally unfair, in violation of Petitioner’s rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Willie v. Maggio“a 'death-qualified' jury does not deprive a defendant of a fair and impartial jury even assuming that defendant showed that such a jury, on the average, would be more likely to favor the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mattheson v. King
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.