Moore v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 97 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Bailey v. Butcher · Grigsby v. Mabry · Jones v. Wj Estelle
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]laims must be included in the prior petition if a competent attorney should have been aware of the claims at the time of the prior petition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is constitutionally impermissible to rest a death sentence on a determination made by a sentencer who has been led to believe that a responsibility for determining the appropriateness of the defendant's death rests elsewhere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Phelps“Moreover, we do not believe that the prosecutor's brief reference to appellate review diminished the jury's sense of responsibility for its sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Phelps
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.