Smith v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 530 · 1989
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Sawyer v. Whitley (1992), Kenley v. Armontrout (1991)
69 federal appellate · 5 district · 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he tools with which to make a Mills argument were available in [1979], when this case was tried.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sufficient mitigating circumstance or circumstances exist which outweigh the aggravating circumstance,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilmore v. Delo · Byrd v. Delo“a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyler v. Armontrout · Byrd v. Delo
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.