Joe J. B. O'Neil v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
422 F.2d 319 · 1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1992
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Harrington v. California · Douglas v. Alabama
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that in O’Neil’s case Runnels did take the stand and was thus available for cross-examination. But he did not “affirm the statement as his”; he flatly denied making it. Under these circumstances, while the statement was admissible against Runnels, both as an admission or confession and for impeachment, it never became admissible against O’Neil. Yet it remained in the record, and Bruton tells us that the court’s instruction to the jury is, as a matter of law, ineffective. The damage done by the out of court statement was just what it would have been had Runnels refused to take the stand at all.”
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.