Hill v. Brigano’s Empirical Analysis
199 F.3d 833 · 1999
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Tocco (2000), United States v. Abboud (2006)
25 federal appellate · 6 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Ohio v. Roberts · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In every case, we consider the degree to which the remarks complained of have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; whether they are isolated or extensive, whether they were deliberately or accidentally placed before the jury[;] and the strength of the competent proof to establish the guilt of the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When reviewing a trial court’s dismissal of potential jurors for cause, this court must determine whether the trial court’s decision prevented the empaneling of an impartial jury. It is not enough for the defendant to show that the decision to exclude the two jurors was improper. He also must show that the jury selected was biased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Mitchell
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.