Jeffries v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 1180 · 1993
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), Byrd v. Collins (2000)
112 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [W]hether the extrinsic material was actually received, and if so, how; (2) the length of time it was available to the jury; (3) the extent to which the jury discussed and considered it; (4) whether the material was introduced before a verdict, and if so, at what point in the deliberations it was introduced; and. (5) any other matters which may bear on the issue of the reasonable possibility of whether the introduction of extrinsic material affected the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Ratelle · Lawson v. Borg“Improper argument does not, per se, violate a defendant's constitutional rights.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.”
4 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.