Flowers v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have repeatedly instructed the district courts in this circuit to set forth, albeit briefly and perhaps orally, the specific reasons for the disposition of a capital case even if to do so would require temporarily staying the execution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. King v. Ol McCotter

2. “More important, however, particularly in a capital case, is the requirement that the district court set forth ... those specific findings of fact and conclusions of law that underlie its ultimate conclusion to grant any relief”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. King v. Ol McCotter

3. “in a capital case it is essential that a district court set forth those specific findings of fact and conclusions of law that underlie its ultimate disposition of the case”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. King v. Ol McCotter