Beavers v. Alford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brown v. Ohio · Carafas v. J · Peyton v. Rowe · Barrett v. United States · Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here enhancement could have been based on other convictions, reliance on an invalid one is harmless”
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.