| A different agenda: The Supreme Court, empirical research evidence, and capital punishment decisions, 1986-1989 JR Acker LAW & Soc'y REv. 27, 65, 1993 | 85 | 1993 |
| America's experiment with capital punishment: reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction JR Acker, RM Bohm, CS Lanier (No Title), 1998 | 79 | 1998 |
| Battered women, straw men, and expert testimony: A comment on State v. Kelly JR Acker, H Toch Criminal Law Bulletin 21 (2), 125-155, 1985 | 76 | 1985 |
| May God-or the governor-have mercy: Executive clemency and executions in modern death-penalty systems JR Acker, CS Lanier CRIMINAL LAW BULLETIN-BOSTON- 36 (3), 200-237, 2000 | 73 | 2000 |
| Social science in Supreme Court criminal cases and briefs: The actual and potential contribution of social scientists as amici curiae JR Acker Law and Human Behavior 14 (1), 25-42, 1990 | 67 | 1990 |
| Than that one innocent suffer: evaluating state safeguards against wrongful convictions RJ Norris, CL Bonventre, AD Redlich, JR Acker Alb. L. Rev. 74, 1301, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Challenging the Death Penalty Under State Constitutions JR Acker, ER Walsh Vand. L. Rev. 42, 1299, 1989 | 66 | 1989 |
| Criminal law DC Brody, JR Acker Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| The flipside injustice of wrongful convictions: When the guilty go free JR Acker Alb. L. Rev. 76, 1629, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| Capital punishment, the moratorium movement, and empirical questions: Looking beyond innocence, race, and bad lawyering in death penalty cases. CS Lanier, JR Acker Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 10 (4), 577, 2004 | 58 | 2004 |
| When the cheering stopped: An overview and analysis of New York's death penalty legislation JR Acker Pace L. Rev. 17, 41, 1996 | 54 | 1996 |
| In fairness and mercy: Statutory mitigating factors in capital punishment laws JR Acker, CS Lanier Crim. L. Bull. 30 (4), 299-345, 1994 | 54 | 1994 |
| The criminal costs of wrongful convictions: Can we reduce crime by protecting the innocent? RJ Norris, JN Weintraub, JR Acker, AD Redlich, CL Bonventre Criminology & Public Policy 19 (2), 367-388, 2020 | 52 | 2020 |
| Class acts: Outstanding college teachers and the difference they make JR Acker Criminal Justice Review 28 (2), 215-231, 2003 | 49 | 2003 |
| Criminal procedure: a contemporary perspective JR Acker, DC Brody Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004 | 47 | 2004 |
| Scottsboro and its legacy: The cases that challenged American legal and social justice JR Acker Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| Parsing this lexicon of death”: Aggravating factors in capital sentencing statutes JR Acker, CS Lanier Crim. L. Bull. 30, 107, 149–51, 1994 | 41 | 1994 |
| Matters of life or death: The sentencing provisions in capital punishment statutes JR Acker, CS Lanier Crim. L. Bull. 31, 19, 33-52, 1995 | 40 | 1995 |
| Wrongful conviction: Law, science, and policy JR Acker, AD Redlich (No Title), 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Protecting the innocent in New York: Moving beyond changing only their names JR Acker, CL Bonventre Alb. L. Rev. 73, 1245, 2009 | 37 | 2009 |
