Mason v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 38 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Wong (1994), United States v. Dukagjini (2002)
19 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Allen v. United States · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the importance of the witness’ testimony in the prosecution’s case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution’s case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immaterial, for the plain implication that the prosecutor sought to elicit, and emphasized in his summation, was that the conversation with [the codefendant] led the police to focus on [the defendant].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alston v. Phillips · Ryan v. Miller“To implicate the defendant's confrontation right, the statement need not have accused the defendant explicitly but may contain an accusation that is only implicit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Amaker v. Lacy · Ryan v. Miller
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.