Adams v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 1493 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Dugger v. Adams (1989), State v. Broom (1988)
21 federal appellate · 22 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Furman v. Georgia
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its legal basis was not reasonably available at that time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dugger v. Adams · Clark v. Dugger“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have found the defendant guilty of Murder in the First Degree as alleged in Count I of the Indictment, and guilty of Murder in the First Degree as alleged in Count II of the Indictment. As I told you, the punishment for this crime is either death, or life imprisonment. The final decision as to what punishment shall be imposed rests solely with the Judge of this Court. However the law requires that you, the jury, render to the Court an advisory sentence as to what punishment should be imposed upon the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“court has articulated a constitutional principle that had not been previously recognized but which is held to have retroactive application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hunt v. Tucker
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.