Dodd v. Trammell’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.3d 971 · 2013
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2025
7 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Slack v. McDaniel · Williams v. Taylor · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“went to the extraordinary length of eliciting [a death penalty] recommendation from six, and perhaps seven, ... witnesses,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no prior panel of this court ha[d] ruled that victim recommendations of the death penalty required reversal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“presentation of victim requests for the death penalty was not a one-off or a mere aside,”
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.