Henderson v. Kibbe’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1,126 federal appellate · 94 district · 469 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,862 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Wainwright v. Sykes (1977), Murray v. Carrier (1986)
1,126 federal appellate · 94 district · 469 state decisions — followed in 34 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
reviewedKibbe v. Henderson (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Fay v. Noia · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Mullaney v. Wilbur
Cited together with Cupp v. Naughten · Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Jackson v. Virginia
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 2,862 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the rare case in which an improper instruction will justify reversal of a criminal conviction when no objection has been made in the trial court.”
200 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a single instruction to a jury may not be judged in artificial isolation, but must be viewed in the context of the overall charge.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“strong interest in preserving the finality of judgments, as well as the interest in orderly trial procedure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.