McInnes v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
April 1996
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Brown v. Allen · Douglas v. People of State of California · Picard v. Connor
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the matter of erroneous instructions by the trial court, moreover, is ordinarily only a trial error and of no constitutional significance so as to entitle a petitioner to habeas corpus relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Cowley“such an effect upon the trial as to render it so fundamentally unfair that it constitutes the denial of a fair trial in a constitutional sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Cowley
How this case has been treated — in progress
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