Parker v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1470 · 1989
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Parker v. Dugger (1991), 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992)
10 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Wainwright v. Sykes · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A state imposes punishment arbitrarily 'when, without reason, it inflicts upon some people a severe punishment that it does not inflict upon others.' " Parker v. Dugger, 876 F.2d at 1476 (quoting Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 , 274, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 2744, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972) (Brennan, J., concurring)). 37 Here, the Florida Supreme Court, by invoking "law of the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Dugger“[t]here are no mitigating circumstances that outweigh the aggravating circumstances in the first count (Padgett murder) and the second count (Sheppard murder).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Dugger“A state imposes punishment arbitrarily 'when, without reason, it inflicts upon some people a severe punishment that it does not inflict upon others.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson 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.