Stringer v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1108 · 1988
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Stringer v. Black (1992), 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State (1991)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he failure to present a case in mitigation during the sentencing phase of a capital trial is not, per se, ineffective assistance of counsel. This court has often upheld decisions not to put on mitigating evidence where the decision resulted from a strategic choice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the trial court undoubtedly added "unanimously" by oversight as the third word in the instructions quoted below, a reading of the entire charge would not have led the jurors to think they were compelled to ignore mitigating circumstances (unless found unanimously) in determining an appropriate sentence for Stringer. The instructions given did not restrict the jury's right and power to consider the appropriateness of the death penalty even after it found that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.