Jones v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1011 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2024
8 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
Relies on Barefoot v. Estelle · Bailey v. Butcher · Tison v. Arizona · Martin v. Wainwright · Grigsby v. Mabry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have been unable to find any case in which this Court has stayed an execution pending appeal to this Court because of the Grigsby issue since that issue has been settled by our decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o date, the law in this Circuit, which has not been modified by Supreme Court decision, mandates a denial of relief to petitioner on this issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rutherford v. Crosby“[A]ny implications to be drawn [from a grant of certiorari in another case] may be discerned by application to the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rutherford v. Crosby
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.