Cookson v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.3d 647 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2022
5 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Owens · Olden v. Kentucky · United States v. DiCaro · Hogan v. Hanks
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mr. Cookson actually had a much better chance to conduct an effective cross-examination than did the defendants in [Owens and Keeter]. A.C., unlike the witnesses in Owens and Keeter, could remember the underlying events described in the hearsay statements. To the extent that A.C.’s testimony at trial was consistent with her testimony in her statements to Wiese and Gonzalez, cross-examination on the trial testimony — which Mr. Cookson had a full opportunity to conduct — was effectively cross-examination on the hearsay statements as well. And to the extent that her testimony was inconsistent with her earlier statements, Mr. Cookson was free to point out the inconsistencies to the jury. In sum, Mr. Cookson had ample opportunity to confront his accuser at trial. If the defendants in Owens and Keeter had a constitutionally adequate opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against them, then Mr. Cookson certainly did as well.” Cookson, 556 F.3d at 652 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual determination on a matter so quintessentially within the province of a trial judge who had the unique opportunity to observe the witness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was not clever enough to concoct false allegations of sexual abuse[,]”
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.