Daugherty v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1426 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Waters v. Thomas (1995), Darrell Grayson v. Leslie Thompson (2001)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · Engle v. Isaac · William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the severity of the aggravating circumstances,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant himself gives counsel reason to believe that further investigation of the defendant's mental condition would be useless or even harmful to the defense, then the decision not to further investigate is reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“these factors indicate the court's awareness of the rule in Lockett and persuade us that when the judge stated in his order that in imposing the sentence of death, he had considered 'all the evidence,' he considered evidence of nonstatutory mitigating circumstances, as well as of statutory mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Card 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.