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this principle affirmatively

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Definitions from Case Law

From 494 U.S. 370 - Boyde v. California · 1990Most cited · 2,719 citing opinions

the sentencing court to alert the jury to its constitutional role in capital sentencing.

How often courts cite the case defining “this principle affirmatively”

199020002010202020301.2k

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “this principle affirmatively” — 2,716 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.