Cockrell v. Oberhauser’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 256 · 1969
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably United States v. Cardenas (1993), Bradford v. Stone (1979)
12 federal appellate · 9 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in Bruton suggests that a judge is incapable of applying the law of limited admissibility which he has himself announced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of LJW · Rogers v. McMackin“The core of Bruton is that the admission of [the confessing defendant's statement] against the confessing defendant is tantamount to its admission against his codefendant because the jury will ignore the limitation in deciding the issue of the nonconfessing defendant's guilt or innocence.”
1 later decision 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.