Volson v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 173 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably State v. Powell (1990), Goodwin v. Johnson (1997)
9 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Ake v. Oklahoma · Tate v. United States · Herko v. United States · United States v. Ballard · Hicks v. Wainwright
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ake requires that the defendant, at a minimum, make allegations supported by a factual showing that the defendant's sanity is in fact at issue in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was unable to understand the difference between right and wrong at the time of the offense”
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.