Walters v. Maass’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 1355 · 1995
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Jones v. Wood (1997), Commonwealth v. Kater (2000)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Estelle v. McGuire · McCleskey v. Zant · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e must determine whether, considering the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty of the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the admission of the evidence was arbitrary or so prejudicial that it rendered the trial fundamentally unfair.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must respect the province of the jury to determine the credibility of witnesses ... and draw reasonable inferences from proven facts by assuming that the jury resolved all conflicts in a manner that supports the verdict.”
3 later decisions 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.