Sullivan v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 719 · 1983
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2001 · most notably Glass v. Louisiana (1985), Buell v. Mitchell (2001)
15 federal appellate · 7 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Kemmler · Spinkellink v. Wainwright
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the carrying out of appellant's death sentence by means of electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Ault“the fact or nature of his sentence or the state's right to execute him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fierro v. Gomez
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.