United States v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 302 · 2009
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Baptiste (2010), United States v. Lighty (2010)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 3591 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3592 · 18 U.S.C. § 3593 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3594 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3595 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Gregg v. Georgia
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence of other bad acts is intrinsic if, among other things, it involves the same series of transactions as the charged offense,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, ... if a court determines that none of a defendant’s claims warrant reversal individually, it will decline to employ the unusual remedy of reversing for cumulative error. To satisfy this requirement, such errors must so fatally infect the trial that they violated the trial’s fundamental fairness. When none of the individual rulings work any cognizable harm it necessarily follows that the cumulative error doctrine finds no foothold.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“• Videotape footage of Basham carjacking Donovan in a Wal-Mart parking lot; • A map drawn by Basham during a November 20, 2002 interview with law enforcement, where he indicated the location of Donovan’s body; • Basham’s statement to investigators on November 25, 2002, that Donovan’s body should be at a cemetery, which “is where [he and Fulks] did their thing,” see J.A. 1280; • Basham’s participation in the Thanksgiving search on November 28, 2002, which indicated that he knew of the crimes committed against Donovan and the location of her body; • Basham’s directions to the search team during the Thanksgiving search, made with Littlejohn’s express consent: “You need to be looking for a strap. It is about this long.... It has Liz Claiborne on the strap.... Back at the cemetery[,] you need to go back to the cemetery and look for that strap,” see id. at 1332-33; • Basham’s statements during the Thanksgiving search, made in Little-john’s presence, that after dragging Donovan’s body out of the car, he and Fulks “pulled her into the woods” and “covered the body with leaves and what he described as limbs,” see id. at 1337; • Basham’s statement during the Thanksgiving search when, while riding in the van with Littlejohn, Basham saw a doe jump onto the road and remarked, “You know, I never could kill a deer and here I have ...see id. at 1329; • Basham’s admission to Clifford Jay on December 24, 2002, “Yes sir. We killed them,” see id. at 1388; and • Donovan’s knife being found in Bas-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.