Jones v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 1277 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Delap v. Dugger (1989), Edward Horsley v. State of Alabama (1995)
15 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 Chapman v. State of California · Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Skipper v. South Carolina · Hitchcock v. Dugger
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character or record that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Dugger · Gore v. Dugger“resentencing is not required where the nonstatutory mitigating evidence presented was so insignificant....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the jury recommendation resulted from an unconstitutional procedure, the entire sentencing process has necessarily been tainted [by the Hitchcock error]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delap v. Dugger
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.