Lyons v. Stovall’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.3d 327 · 1999
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Sammye R. Holloway v. Sally Brush Clermont County, Ohio (2000), Ellis v. United States (2002)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is “susceptible to debate” as to whether the probability of paternity statistics violate the presumption of innocence, inasmuch as courts have allowed the use of these statistics without finding error. See State v. Hartman, 145 Wis.2d 1 , 426 N.W.2d 320, 328 (Wis.1988) (Steinmetz, J., dissenting) (collecting cases from jurisdictions that allow the use of the statistics in question); see also Coe v. Bell, 161 F.3d 320, 353 (6th Cir.1998) (finding that a result is not dictated by-precedent “when courts have reached divergent results on an issue before resolution by the Supreme Court”); Cain [v. Redman], 947 F.2d [817,] 821 [(6th Cir.1991)] (noting the fact that the jury instructions found to be unconstitutional were routinely given without challenge rendered their correctness “susceptible to debate among reasonable minds”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it is well-settled that `[f]ederal courts may take judicial notice of proceedings in other courts of record'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.