Mancusi v. Stubbs’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
409 federal appellate · 33 district · 666 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,345 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Ohio v. Roberts (1980)
409 federal appellate · 33 district · 666 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. William C. Stubbs v. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden of Attica Correctional Facility (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1783 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chambers v. Maroney · California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans · Barber v. Page · Grayned v. City of Rockford
Cited together with Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Barber v. Page · Dutton v. Evans · Pointer v. Texas
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 1,345 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The focus of the Court’s concern has been to insure that there “are indicia of reliability which have been widely viewed as determinative of whether a statement may be placed before the jury though there is no confrontation of the declarant,” Dutton v. Evans, supra [400 U.S.], at 89 [91 S.Ct. [210] at 220], 27 L.Ed.2d 213 , and to “afford the trier of fact a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of the prior statement,” California v. Green, supra, 399 U.S. at 161 [90 S.Ct. [1930] at 1936]. It is clear from these statements, and from numerous prior decisions of this Court, that even though the witness be unavailable his prior testimony must bear some of these “indicia of reliability” referred to in Dutton.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“afford the trier of fact a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of the prior statement.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[S]ince there was an adequate opportunity to cross-examine [the witness], and counsel ... availed himself of that opportunity, the transcript ... bore sufficient `indicia of reliability' and afforded `"the trier of fact a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of the prior statement."'" 448 U.S. at 73 , 100 S.Ct. at 2542-2543 (emphasis added)”
8 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.