Kontakis v. Beyer’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 110 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Whitney v. Horn (2002), Smith v. Horn (1997)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante · Estelle v. McGuire
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Horn · Whitney v. Horn“her. At trial the child not only exonerated the defendant, she identified another man as her assailant. [3] Because neither White nor Wright specifically says that the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule is”
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.