Tucker v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 1293 · 1986
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably 153 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Flores (1992), Cargill v. Turpin (1997)
40 federal appellate · 7 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. § 46
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had no effect on the sentencing decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In this case, the state sought to minimize the jury’s sense of responsibility for determining the appropriateness of death. Because we cannot say that this effort had no effect on the sentencing decision, that decision does not meet the standard of reliability that the Eight Amendment requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Kemp“not only failed to correct the prosecutor's remarks, but in fact openly agreed with them; he stated to the jury that the remarks were proper and necessary, strongly implying that the prosecutor's portrayal of the jury's role was correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sawyer v. Butler
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.