Shaw v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 304 · 1984
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably McCleskey v. Kemp (1987), Godinez v. Moran (1993)
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Furman v. Georgia · McMann v. Richardson
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who has voted as a legislator in favor of a statute permitting the death penalty in a proper case cannot thereafter be presumed disqualified to hear capital cases as a judge or predisposed to give a death sentence in any particular case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he proffered evidence would not have been of sufficient probative value on the issue of discriminatory intent to have required response, and no evidentiary hearing was therefore required”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Pulley · Harris v. Pulley“[T]he 'test must be whether he has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding--and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.