Dutton v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 593 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Dugger v. Adams (1989), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 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. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Murray v. Carrier
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crucial inquiry is whether the venireman could follow the court's instructions and obey his oath, notwithstanding his views on capital punishment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he law petitioner relies on did not become established until the Caldwell decision in 1985”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that, when taken in context, the statement of the prosecutor was not constitutionally impermissible.... Indeed, the tenor of the remainder of the closing was that the crucial determination of punishment was the sole function of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parks v. Brown · Parks v. Brown
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.