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Clark v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis

942 F.2d 567 · 1991

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
March 1993
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Murray v. Carrier · Lockett v. Ohio · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Rose v. Lundy

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “: The defendant is a 20 year old caucasian male before the Court after being found guilty by a Jury of Four Counts of First Degree Murder. In conversation, the defendant seemed of above average intelligence. He did not accept any responsibility for the offense, claiming that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “aggravating circumstances were not found beyond a reasonable doubt. He bases this contention on the circumstance that neither the sentencing court nor the Arizona Supreme Court explicitly recited that either had found that the aggravating circumstances had been established”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “it is ludicrous to suggest the court did not find the aggravating circumstances established according to the standard it so recently announced in Jordan. The term”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.