Leroy v. Rc Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 94 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Harris v. Reed (1989), Hughes v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1986)
53 federal appellate ·
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 Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Frady · Engle v. Isaac
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court’s instructions to the jury at the sentencing phase of the proceedings advised the jury that they must consider death first before commencing deliberation on either of the two life verdicts. This instruction is fundamentally unfair, and violates the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] second or successive petition may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackman v. Parke“'cause and prejudice' which would provide a legal justification for the federal court to look beyond the procedural bar....”
1 later decision 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.