Pack v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 586 · 1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2013
6 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
Relies on Brecht v. Abrahamson · Lindh v. Murphy · Michigan v. Lucas · Lindh v. Murphy · 135 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Sandoval
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, the Supreme Court has yet to hold that any application of a rape-shield statute is inconsistent with the Constitution, making it particularly hard to say that failure to make a constitutional rape-shield law — which is what [the petitioner] needs in order to prevail — is `contrary to ... clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammer v. Karlen“is that courts ... give earnest consideration to the possibility that excluding evidence under a rape shield law may interfere unduly with the defendant's opportunity to present a defense of innocence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammer v. Karlen
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.