Rutherford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
23 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona · Deck v. Missouri · Anderson v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a compilation of previously available information related to Florida's death penalty system and consists of legal analysis and recommendations for reform, many of which are directed to the executive and legislative branches.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Power v. State · Rolling v. State“nothing in the report would cause this Court to recede from its past decisions upholding the facial constitutionality of the death penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Power v. State · Tompkins v. State“not allege[d] how any of the conclusions in the report would render his individual death sentence unconstitutional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Power v. State · Tompkins v. State
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.