Saylor v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2023
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Teague v. Lane · Ring v. Arizona · Walton v. Arizona · Thompson v. Oklahoma
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“executed despite a jury recommendation to the contrary .... Currently two other inmates are on death row after a judge overruled the jury’s recommendation against death .... There is the instance where the jury was unable to agree on a recommendation and the death penalty was carried out, and another defendant sentenced in that circumstance remains on death row today. Holmes v. State, 671 N.E.2d 841 (Ind.1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. Davis“At this writing we have no definitive decision on the retroactive application of Ring [...]. For the reasons given below we do not need to await resolution of this federal constitutional issue, and also do not address whether, even if there is no federal requirement that Ring be applied retroactively, Indiana may nevertheless choose to apply it to pre-Ring convictions as a matter of state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even if the Sixth Amendment does not bar Saylor's execution for a pre-Ring crime, as a matter of Indiana state law Saylor, if tried today, could not be sentenced to death without a jury recommendation that death be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. State
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.