Six v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 469 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Sweet v. Delo (1997), State v. Pattno (1998)
26 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.
Relationships
Relies on Soberon v. United States · Sawyer v. Whitley · Schad v. Arizona · New Jersey v. New York · Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the manner in which the court conducted its review or whether the court misinterpreted the [state proportionality] statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the comments about remorse were prefaced with a reference to the jury's observance of Six during the trial, we cannot say the prosecutor's comments about remorse were intended as anything more than remarks on Six's general demeanor in the courtroom, or that the jury would view the comments as anything more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prosecutor did not make a personal appeal to the jury's parental responsibilities to protect their children from crime, but was speaking figuratively about society as a whole and was asking the jury to send a message that anyone who rapes, robs, kidnaps, and kills children would be sentenced to death”
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.