Mancuso v. Olivarez’s Empirical Analysis
292 F.3d 939 · 2002
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Zivkovic v. Southern California Edison Co. (2002), Butler v. Curry (2008)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Lindh v. Murphy
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Supreme Court has made clear that whether a trial error had a substantial and injurious effect is not to be analyzed in terms of burdens of proof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the responsibility to determine this legal question `without benefit of such aids as presumptions or allocated burdens of proof that expedite factfinding at the trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f one is left in grave doubt [about the harmfulness of the error], the conviction cannot stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.