Easley v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 969 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2024
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Rhode Island v. Innis · Michigan v. Mosley · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a matter-of-fact communication of the evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had inmate testimony [indicating] that [the suspect] and another individual were the... perpetrators of [a] murder ... and that if convicted [of the murder], [the suspect] could be subject to the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hambly“we do not believe that the provision of information, even if its weight might move a suspect to speak, amounts to an impermissible 'psychological ploy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Craig
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.