Berryman v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 1247 · 1976
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2022
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Harrington v. California · In the Matter of the Application of the Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade of the City of New York · Omaha Council Bluffs Street Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are relying almost entirely upon circumstantial evidence. Nobody was there when the robbery took place. Nobody that we can bring here to testify. The defendants here, yes, but we can't get them to testify.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overwhelming and undisputed evidence of appellant's guilt”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 1250. The court held to the contrary on the murder conviction stating: although we recognize that an appropriate cautionary instruction on the right of the defendant to remain silent was given, we do not feel that it could have cured the effect of the prejudicial and improper comment above as to the murder charge. The proofs of appellant's participation in the murder itself arise solely from circumstance and inference. In such a case properly termed”
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.