Weeks v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 1059 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2021
8 federal appellate ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Estelle v. McGuire · Carnegie v. United States · Johnson v. Righetti · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, therefore, if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Defendant, Nelson Gongora, ... did ... intentionally cause the death of an individual, Delfino Sierra, by shooting Delfino Sierra with a deadly weapon, to-wit; a firearm, and that said Defendant was ... in the course of committing or attempting to commit the offense of robbery, of Delfino Sierra, or if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Defendant, Nelson Gongora, entered into a conspiracy with Albert Orosco to commit the felony offense of robbery of Delfino Sierra and that ... in the attempt to carry out this conspiracy, Albert Orosco did then and there intentionally cause the death of an individual, Delfino Sierra, by shooting Delfino Sierra with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, and that such offense was a felony committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose to commit robbery of Delfino Sierra and was an offense that should have been anticipated by the Defendant as a result of carrying out the conspiracy, then you will find the Defendant guilty of capital murder, though he may have no intent to commit capital murder, as charged in the Indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well-established that the instruction may not be judged in artificial isolation, but must be considered in the context of the instructions as a whole and the trial record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he only question . . . is whether the ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.'”
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.