Prophet v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 926 · 1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2011
3 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Burgett v. Texas · Loper v. Beto · Doughty v. Maxwell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the overwhelming nature of the evidence against [Bryan], the jury could not have reasonably reached a different verdict even if the prior conviction were not used.”
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.