Andrews v. Shulsen’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 1256 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Osborn v. Shillinger (1988), 168 Ill. 2d 509 - People v. Coleman (1995)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Batson v. Kentucky · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 habeas petitioner must provide supporting factual allegations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Parks v. Brown · Hatch v. Oklahoma“Having reviewed the briefs and the appellate record, we conclude that no hearing is required under the principles of Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 [83 S.Ct. 745, 9 L.Ed.2d 770] (1963), and that the constitutional standard for a fair trial has been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on the function of the jury's finding of an aggravating circumstance under [a state's] capital sentencing statute, and on the reasons that the aggravating circumstance at issue ... was found to be invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.