Poe v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 329 · 1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2020
5 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans · Barber v. Page · Mattox v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] good faith search does not mean that every lead, no matter how nebulous, must be tracked to the ends of the earth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for purposes of ... the exception to the confrontation requirement unless the prosecutorial authorities have made a good-faith effort to obtain (the absent witness') presence at trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was said to have applied for employment with the Santa Fe Railway in the 'midwest'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Goins
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.