Berrier v. Egeler’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 515 · 1978
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Walker v. Engle (1983), United States v. Mentz (1988)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we find no bar to habeas relief in this case because (petitioner's) trial counsel made no objection . . . at the time of trial. The magnitude of the error in this trial would make it cognizable in a habeas proceeding as plain error even where no objection had been made before the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““You are to determine from all of the evidence whether facts constituting such reasonable cause have been established and unless such facts constituting such reasonable cause have been established by the defense in this case you cannot acquit on the ground of self-defense....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paprocki v. Foltz““The defendant is not required to prove that he acted in self-defense. The prosecution has the burden of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and this includes the responsibility of proving that the defendant was not acting in self-defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Paprocki v. Foltz
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.