Humphrey v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 552 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden (2001), Leavitt v. Arave (2004)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Victor v. Nebraska · Cage v. Louisiana · United States v. Dale · Richard Dunn v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Laurence Black v. Edward Cox · Gilday v. Callahan
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could acquit only if it had a serious doubt, for which you could give good reason”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proper inquiry [in reviewing reasonable doubt instruction] is not whether instruction 'could have' been applied in unconstitutional manner, but whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury did so apply it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re: Gregory Smith“a reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt. It should be an actual doubt, such a doubt as a reasonable person would seriously entertain. It is a serious doubt for which you could give a good reason.”
1 later decision 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.