Maggio v. Fulford’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
288 federal appellate · 18 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 655 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Miller v. Fenton (1985), City of Los Angeles v. Heller (1986)
288 federal appellate · 18 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedFulford v. Maggio (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Sumner v. Mata · Marshall v. Lonberger · Sumner v. Mata
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 655 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Face to face with living witnesses the original trier of the facts holds a position of advantage from which appellate judges are excluded. In doubtful cases the exercise of his power of observation often proves the most accurate method of ascertaining the truth.... How can we say the judge is wrong? We never saw the witnesses....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nara v. Frank · State v. Edwards“[b]efore a federal habeas court undertakes to overturn factual conclusions made by a state court, it must determine that these conclusions are not 'fairly supported by the record.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our cases have treated the ultimate question whether a defendant is competent to stand trial as at least a mixed question of law and fact.”
2 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.