Hardy v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
565 U.S. 65 · 2011
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 135 F. Supp. 2d 551 - In Re Nice Systems, Ltd. Securities Litigation (2001), State v. Goins (2017)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Barber v. Page · Felkner v. Jackson · Cross v. Hardy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]reat improbability that such efforts would have resulted in locating the witness, and would have led to her production at trial, neutralizes any intimation that a concept of reasonableness required their execution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[o]ne, in hindsight, may always think of other things.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“remained in constant contact with A.S. and her mother”
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.