Cunha v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 894 · 1975
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. City of Louisville · Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe · School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · Miller v. Oregon · Prendez v. Craven
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled law that the sufficiency of the evidence to support a state conviction raises no federal constitutional question and cannot be considered in a federal habeas corpus proceeding by a state prisoner . . . Consequently, federal habeas relief under section 2254 is available to the state prisoner only if there is no evidence whatever supporting the conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not merely one of pigeonholing, but one of balancing, on the one side, the actual need for the other-crimes evidence in light of the issues and the other evidence available to the prosecution, the convincingness of the evidence that the other crimes were committed and that the accused was the actor, and the strength or weakness of the other-crimes evidence in supporting the issue, and on the other, the degree to which the jury will probably be roused by the evidence to overmastering hostility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.