Magill v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 879 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Ouber v. Guarino (2002), Bolender v. Singletary (1994)
28 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Engle v. Isaac
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether or not the trial court believed it could consider nonstatutory mitigating circumstances, [defendant's death] sentence must be vacated because the jury was led to believe its inquiry was so limited”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the introduction of nonstatutory mitigating evidence is meaningless if the jury is instructed not to consider that evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an important factor when the jurors consider whether to recommend the death penalty,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dobbs v. Turpin · Fugate v. Head
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.