Jeffries v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 923 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), Jeffries v. Blodgett (1993)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Townsend v. Sain · Griffin v. California · Estelle v. McGuire
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Phill Skiff and Inez Skiff [the victims] didn’t get due process of law. This man got a fair trial. He got two attorneys. He got resources, he got the benefit, everything that our system gives to a defendant, everything, and he got a fair trial and he will get more than that. He will get appeals, you name it, because that is our system and this system has treated him fairly. Something that he didn’t do — he killed unmercifully, but our system gives him due process of law so don’t think thát you’re killing him because you’re giving him the law and you’re giving him justice.”
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.