Cupp v. Naughten’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2,211 federal appellate · 274 district · 738 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,229 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Thomas v. Arn (1986), Estelle v. McGuire (1991)
2,211 federal appellate · 274 district · 738 state decisions — followed in 46 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
reviewedNaughten v. Cupp (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Harrington v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Cited together with Henderson v. Kibbe · Sandstrom v. Montana · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Chapman v. State of California
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 5,229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.”
292 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very witness is presumed to speak the truth,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“`in artificial isolation, but ... in the context of the overall charge.'”
9 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.