Hill v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
3
states following
August 2007
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant · Pulley v. Harris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is general agreement that lethal injection is at present the most humane type of execution available and is far preferable to the sometimes barbaric means employed in the past”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Campbell v. Wood“[m]any states have now abandoned other forms of execution in favor of lethal injection”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Campbell v. Wood
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.