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Smith v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis

996 F.2d 667 · 1993

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2003
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Brecht v. Abrahamson

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

  1. “to develop and to articulate a constitutionally adequate and meaningful system of appellate sentencing review, and to apply such a system in its review of [Smith's] case”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “to conclude that the facts surrounding Smith's crime satisfied the constitutionally limited construction of the”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “The Constitutional Inadequacy of North Carolina's System of Appellate Review of Death Sentences,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.