Kennedy v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 905 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Drew v. Department of Corrections (2002), United States v. Knowles (1995)
23 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The death penalty is called for. Ask yourselves this question, how would you feel living in this community if you looked out of your window one night and saw [the defendant] walking down the street coming up toward your house. If that wouldn’t put a feeling of cold terror in your heart, what would?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I don’t think Detective Goateher is going to come in here after fifteen years on a police force and risk his entire credibility, no less his job, no less his freedom by committing perjury to put an innocent man in jail. But I’ll say this to you in all sincerity: If you believe that Officer Moneyhun walked in this courtroom, got up there on that stand and took an oath before you and made a solemn pact with God to tell the truth, if you believe he did that, and came in here and lied against that Defendant and made up all that statement that he recited to you, then, I say you should acquit him if that’s what you believe because we’ve got the worst, most corrupt law enforcement agencies in this State if that happened, and, I don’t believe it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irwin v. Singletary“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.