Pilon v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.2d 264 · 1979
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe · Sansone v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Earley v. DiCenso
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if we assume that the failure to give a requested lesser included offense instruction could ever be cognizable in a habeas corpus proceeding, such failure clearly does not rise to the level of constitutional error when the failure was correct as a matter of state law. 4”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is [ ] evidentiary support for the lesser included offense instruction, there can be no violation of due process from the refusal to give it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Guin v. Foltz“undesirable, erroneous, or even 'universally condemned[;]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rohdes v. Mohr
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.