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Peek v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis

784 F.2d 1479 · 1986

Citation profile

93
cited by 93 later decisions
8
states following
December 2016
most recently cited

64 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Waters v. Thomas (1995)

64 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Duncan v. State of Louisiana

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

  1. “if it is clear from the entire charge considered in context that a reasonable jury could not have misunderstood the nature and function of mitigating circumstances,”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Burden v. Zant · Burden v. Zant
  2. “whether there is a reasonable possibility that the jury understood the instructions in an unconstitutional manner,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Burden v. Zant · Burden v. Zant
  3. “any reasonable juror could have failed to understand the challenged instructions and the role of mitigation.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. High v. Kemp · Williams v. Kemp

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.