Singleton v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 668 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2003
5 federal appellate ·
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 Strickland v. Washington · Colorado v. Connelly · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Beck v. Alabama · Burger v. Kemp
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an independent and informed choice of his own free will, possessing the capability to do so, his will not being overborne by the pressures and circumstances swirling around him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Thigpen“isolated fact of petitioner's low IQ ... cannot tip the scales in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Thigpen“coercive police activity is a necessary predicate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Thigpen
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.