Pritchett v. Pitcher’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 959 · 1997
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), United States v. Tocco (2000)
31 federal appellate ·
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 Brecht v. Abrahamson · Smith v. Phillips · Sumner v. Mata · Davis v. United States · Miller v. Fenton
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree to which the remarks complained of have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; whether they are isolated or extensive; whether they were deliberately or accidentally placed before the jury, and the strength of the competent proof to establish the guilt of the accused.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Brigano · Byrd v. Collins“so pronounced and persistent that it permeate[d] the entire atmosphere of the trial, . . . or so gross as probably to prejudice the defendant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so egregious as to render the entire trial fundamentally unfair.”
2 later decisions 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.