Ficklin v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.3d 1147 · 1999
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2010
6 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Zant v. Stephens · Yates v. United States · Terminiello v. Chicago · Breed v. Jones · Williams v. State of North Carolina
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases in which this rule has been applied all involved general verdicts based on a record that left the reviewing court uncertain as to the actual ground on which the jury's decision rested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not suggest that a general verdict can be sustained if there is `ample' evidence presented on a constitutional theory or if the prosecution `relied primarily' on a constitutional theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can tell with certainty from the jury instructions that the jury rested its verdict on a ground that did not implicate petitioner's constitutional right[s]”
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.