Knight v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 705 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Miller National Labor Relations Board v. California Pacific Medical Center (1994), Bolender v. Singletary (1994)
29 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 · Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No authority has been furnished for this proposition and it seems doubtful that any exists. The State’s theory, in practice, would do away with the requirement of an individualized sentencing determination in cases where there are many aggravating circumstances. It is this requirement, of course, that is at the heart of Lockett and its progeny.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“remand[ed] this case to the district court with instructions to enter an order granting the application for writ of habeas corpus, unless the State within a reasonable period of time either resentences Muhammad in a proceeding that comports with Lockett or vacates the death sentence and imposes a lesser sentence consistent with law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. State“[b]ecause of the state of the law in Florida at the time of Knight's trial, defense attorneys could not anticipate the conflict between the not yet decided Lockett decision and Florida's law limiting a jury's consideration of nonstatutory mitigating evidence”
1 later decision 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.