Duckett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Lynch (2003), Neill v. Gibson (2001)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 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 · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) that Mr. Duckett was previously convicted of a violent felony; 2) ■ that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel; 3) that the murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding arrest or prosecution; 4) that the murder was committed while Mr. Duckett was serving a sentence of imprisonment; and 5) that Mr. Duckett constituted a continuing threat to society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Allegations of prosecutorial misconduct do not warrant reversal of a conviction unless the cumulative effect was such [as] to deprive the defendant of a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cummings v. State · Bland v. State“[t]here is no reason for them and counsel knows better and does not need to go so far in the future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.