Dillon v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 895 · 1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2011
7 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 Strickland v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Cronic · Ungar v. Sarafite
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capability of such cruelty (brutal stabbings during a burglary) in the mind of one that age cannot be considered a mitigating circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spranger v. State“[a]ctual or constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Siverson v. O'Leary
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.