Smith v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 1383 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. Infante (2005), Blue v. State (1996)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to issue the writ of habeas corpus unless the State of Mississippi initiates appropriate proceedings in state court within a reasonable time after the issuance of our mandate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lucas · Billiot v. Puckett“be salvaged if the state appellate court eliminated the invalid aggravating factor and reweighed the remaining valid factors against the mitigating factors, or if it determined that the use of the invalid factor was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.... Should the State elect to initiate further proceedings in the Mississippi Supreme Court, that court still has the option of reweighing or performing a harmless error analysis as those procedures have been defined in [the relevant cases].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lucas“The case is REMANDED to the district court with instructions to issue the writ of habeas corpus unless the State of Mississippi initiates appropriate proceedings 2 in state court within a reasonable time after the issuance of our mandate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lucas
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.