Tucker v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 1480 · 1985
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Coleman v. Brown (1986), Drake v. Kemp (1985)
44 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Berger v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne class of information which is particularly relevant to the sentencing decision is the defendant’s previous criminal activity. In addition to previous convictions, it is acceptable to consider evidence of crimes for which a defendant has been indicted but not convicted. Activities for which there has been no charge filed can be considered as well. In general, the relevant inquiry for information at sentencing is whether it is reliable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appropriate means of pointing out the possibility of Tucker’s future dangerousness and did not call for a speculative inquiry into prison conditions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had no effect on the sentencing decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Kemp · Blair v. Armontrout
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.