Godfrey v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 1557 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2013
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jackson v. Denno · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Burks v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so overwhelming that there is no question that he would have been re-indicted,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A psychiatric examination is not per se a 'critical stage' in a defendant's prosecution. The focus of the examination must concern an essential issue at trial for the examination to represent a 'critical stage'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“if the initial sentencer imposes a life sentence the defendant is 'acquitted' of death”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. Dugger
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.