Edwards v. Scroggy’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 204 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Stringer v. Black (1992), Neal v. Puckett (2002)
12 federal appellate · 4 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Chambers v. Mississippi · Swain v. State of Alabama · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Assuming that the misdemeanor conviction of carrying a concealed weapon is necessary to support the jury's finding of this aggravating circumstance, appellant's argument nevertheless must fail. The Court in Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862 , 103 S.Ct. 2733 , 77 L.Ed.2d 235 (1983), held that the invalidation of one aggravating circumstance did not require the vacation of the death penalty so long as there were other valid aggravating circumstances remaining. [Footnote omitted]. The jury in this case found six aggravating circumstances and the invalidation of one of them would not require vacation of the death sentence. See Rault v. Butler, 826 F.2d 299 (5th Cir.1987); cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 108 S.Ct. 14 , 97 L.Ed.2d 803 (1987); Celestine v. Butler, 823 F.2d 74 (5th Cir. 1987); Evans v. Thigpen, 809 F.2d 239 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 107 S.Ct. 3278 , 97 L.Ed.2d 782 (1987). The district court correctly rejected this claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think that Green is limited to its facts, and certainly did not federalize the law of evidence . . . . [although] certain egregious evidentiary errors may be redressed by the due process clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neal v. Puckett · Neal v. Puckett
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.