Mastrian v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 813 · 1977
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 8 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cinelli (1983), United States v. Brooklier (1982)
79 federal appellate · 8 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Kotteakos v. United States · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the existence merely of newly discovered evidence relevant to the guilt of a state prisoner is not a ground for relief on federal habeas corpus.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that a crucial witness's expectation of leniency must be revealed absent evidence of an express or implied promise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.