Calderon v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Fry v. Pliler (2007), Davis v. Ayala (2015)
126 federal appellate · 14 district · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Fay v. Noia · Boyde v. California · O'NEAL v. McAninch
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 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he State is not to be put to [the] arduous task”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial and injurious effect or influence on the jury's verdict.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally " inform the jurors about the governor's commutation power. Contrary to the majority's analysis, it did not purport to be a definitive and conclusive statement about that power. 37 The admonitory instruction provides further evidence that the instruction, taken as a whole, was harmless. The trial judge carefully instructed the jury that it "may not speculate as to if or when a governor would commute the sentence to a lesser one which includes the possibility of parole.”
1 later decision 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.