Moore v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 560 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Barefoot v. Estelle · Lockhart v. McCree · Kuhlmann v. Wilson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) He received ineffective assistance of counsel at the guilt phase of his trial; (2) He received ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of the trial; (3) The Louisiana Supreme Court failed to engage in a meaningful appellate review designed to ensure that death was the appropriate sentence; (4) One of the three aggravating circumstances found by the jury was unsupported by the evidence; (5) The trial court’s exclusion of jurors who were unambiguously opposed to imposing the death penalty resulted in a biased and unfair jury; (6) The trial court gave the jury inadequate instructions concerning imposition of the death penalty; and (7) The death penalty in Louisiana, as well as in the United States, is applied in a racially discriminatory and arbitrary manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Butler“and the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Lynaugh
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.