Billotti v. Legursky’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 113 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2012
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lockett v. Ohio · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Fourteenth Amendment does not authorize the federal courts to micromanage state criminal justice systems.... It is enough that they serve the needs of the state which adopted them, and that they afford an ample measure of procedural fairness to criminal defendants seeking an appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If a person indicted for murder be found by the juiy guilty thereof, they shall in their verdict find whether he is guilty of murder of the first degree or second degree_ [A]nd if such recommendation is added to their verdict, such person shall be eligible for parole in accordance with the provisions of said article twelve: Provided, however, That if the accused pleads guilty of murder of the first degree, the court may, in its discretion, provide that such person shall be eligible for parole in accordance with the provisions of said article twelve, and, if the court so provides, such person shall be eligible for parole in accordance with the provisions of said article twelve in the same manner and with like effect as if such person had been found guilty by the verdict of a jury and the jury had recommended mercy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“offend[ ] some principle so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Smith
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.