Roberts v. Bowersox’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 1062 · 1998
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. Paul (2000), Ramsey v. Bowersox (1998)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sandstrom v. Montana · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Enmund v. Florida · Henderson v. Kibbe
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rosecutorial misconduct does not warrant federal habeas relief unless the misconduct infected the trial with enough unfairness to render [petitioner's] conviction a denial of due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Improper prosecutorial remarks violate due process when there is a reasonable probability the remarks affected the trial's outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-2449
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.