Cochran v. Herring’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 1404 · 1995
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably McNair v. Campbell (2005), Wright v. Hopper (1999)
39 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Michigan v. Long · Griffith v. Kentucky · Harris v. Reed
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases ... where the trial took place pre- Batson, a properly made Swain claim made in a pretrial motion is treated as a timely made Batson objection for the purpose of preserving the Batson issue for appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Hopper · Allen v. Rc Lee“seven of the nine black members of the venire panel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Rc Lee · Allen v. Rc Lee“before the actual striking of jurors began,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Rc Lee · Allen v. Rc Lee
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.