Duckett v. Mullin’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.3d 982 · 2002
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), Johnson v. Williams (2013)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Berger v. United States
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cumulative-error analysis merely aggregates all the errors that individually have been found to be harmless, and therefore not reversible, and it analyzes whether their cumulative effect on the outcome of the trial is such that collectively they can no longer be determined to be harmless.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hooper v. Mullin · Darks v. Mullin“[Would it be] justice [to] send this man down to prison, let him have clean sheets to sleep on every night, three good meals a day, visits by his friends and family, while [the victim] lies cold in his grave. Is that justice? Is that your concept of justice? How do [the victim’s children] go visit him?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cumulative effect of two or more individually harmless errors has the potential to prejudice a defendant to the same extent as a single reversible error.”
2 later decisions 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.