McCorquodale v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1493 · 1983
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Glass v. Louisiana (1985), Tomlin v. Alabama (1984)
9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Adams v. Texas · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has made it sufficiently clear that she could not impose the death penalty regardless of the evidence presented. The Eleventh Circuit stated:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jackson v. State · Watkins v. State“Witherspoon requires a reviewing court to independently review the record to ensure that the exclusions were proper, but that review must take into account that the trial judge was in a much better position to evaluate the clarity of a juror's response.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darden v. Wainwright“In assessing the adequacy of a venireperson's response to Witherspoon questions, a reviewing court must grant some deference to the trial court's assessment of the juror's demeanor and clarity of his answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darden v. Wainwright
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.