Calvert v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.3d 823 · 2002
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Lorraine v. Coyle (2002), United States v. Rodriguez-Preciado (2005)
19 federal appellate ·
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 Chapman v. State of California · Williams v. Taylor · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we have consistently recognized, a codefendant’s confession is presumptively unreliable as to the passages detailing the defendant’s conduct or culpability because those passages may well be the product of the codefendant’s desire to shift or spread blame, curry favor, avenge himself, or divert attention to another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While a petitioner has the responsibility of ensuring that all claims in support of a petition for writ of habeas corpus are timely raised, so too does the warden bear the responsibility of ensuring all defenses, including harmless error, are timely raised.... Just as a defendant may not “save” claims for strategic purposes, the state may not place the harmless error defense in an arsenal for safekeeping in the event that its substantive constitutional arguments fail. Both parties must present their cards at the outset; as [a] matter of fundamental fairness and judicial economy, hidden hands should not be encouraged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Miller v. Stovall“[I]t is generally held that an argument is not raised where it is simply noted in a footnote absent any recitation of legal standards or legal authority.... This conclusion is logical, given that a footnote merely supplements an existing argument; it is not, by definition, used to-present a new argument or idea.”
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.