Magwood v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 1438 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Magwood v. Patterson (2010), Osborn v. Shillinger (1988)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Bonner v. City of Prichard · United States v. Cronic
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] federal habeas corpus court will not re-evaluate the weight accorded to particular aggravating and mitigating factors. This determination is left to state courts, provided the death-penalty statute and sentencing hearing meet relevant constitutional requirements.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o find that mitigating factors do not exist where such mitigating circumstances clearly exist returns us to the state of affairs which were found by the Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia to be prohibited by the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]our experts ascertained that Magwood suffered from some form of serious mental disorder on the date of [the] murder and none testified that [he] was free from mental illness on that date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.