Mann v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 1446 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Harris v. Reed (1989), Dugger v. Adams (1989)
24 federal appellate · 14 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
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Enmund v. Florida
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'minimize the jury's sense of responsibility for determining the appropriateness of death.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“As you have been told, the final decision as to what punishment shall be imposed is the responsibility of the Judge; however, it is your duty to follow the law which will now be given to you by the Court and render to the Court an advisory sentence....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(f) [t]he capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.